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Advisor
Nikolaos A Papanikolaou, Ph.D
Advisor
I study cancer as a dynamically stabilized, systems-level disease, investigating how metabolite allocation, epigenetic regulation, network architecture, and nonlinear cell-state dynamics lock cells into malignant, drug-resistant states. Current themes:
• Protein arginine/lysine methylome in cancer and differentiation
• Molecular-dynamics analysis of driver mutations and inhibitor binding (e.g., c-KIT D816V)
• Network-, entropy-, and chaos-theoretic analysis of interactomes and resistance
• Glioblastoma: methylation of methylases as self-reinforcing epigenetic circuits
• Translating systems-level modeling into precision medicine (Akesis Med; EP 1010527)