ESF Exploratory Workshop
Physics of Cancer
13-15 September 2012
Varenna (Italy)
About the workshop:
Understanding how cancer initiates, grows and migrates has been a key issue in biomedical research in the last decades. Ideas and methods from physics have been widely applied to biology, but only sporadically to cancer. Promising areas of activity include: mathematical, biophysical and computational models of cancer progression, angiogenesis, metastasis and cancer genomics. The ESF – Exploratory Workshop on the Physics of Cancer brings together researchers from different communities (cancer biologists, applied mathematicians, statistical physicists, theoretical and experimental biophysicists) to discuss ways to tackle cancer from a physics perspective, exploring possibilities to propose “physics of cancer” initiatives in Europe.
About the European Science Foundation:
The European Science Foundation (ESF) was established in 1974 to create a common European platform for cross-border cooperation in all aspects of scientific research. With its emphasis on a multidisciplinary and pan-European approach, the Foundation provides the leadership necessary to open new frontiers in European science. Its activities include providing science policy advice (Science Strategy); stimulating co-operation between researchers and organisations to explore new directions (Science Synergy); and the administration of externally funded programmes (Science Management). These take place in the following areas: Physical and engineering sciences; Medical sciences; Life, earth and environmental sciences; Humanities; Social sciences; Polar; Marine; Space; Radio astronomy frequencies; Nuclear physics. Headquartered in Strasbourg with offices in Brussels, the ESF’s membership comprises 78 national funding agencies, research performing agencies and academies from 30 European nations. The Foundation’s independence allows the ESF to objectively represent the priorities of all these members.
The scientific report for the ESF exploratory workshop on Physics of Cancer is available:
