Dr. Helen Moore talked about her career as a mathematician in the pharmaceutical field. As a researcher, she and a team of other mathematicians try to figure out what the optimal therapy for HIV and Leukemia patients are.
It was a really interesting lecture because I don't generally care about the applications that are shown in math classes--applications that are more geared toward the engineers in the classes. But this showed how math could be applied to helping fight cancer, something that we always think about medical doctors being able to achieve.
It was also interesting because of the importance of precision in the mathematics. Dr. Moore talked about doctors administering drugs to patients--different levels and different combinations of drugs. She said it was important to be accurate in their models because you wouldn't be able to give a person massive amounts of drugs without there being negative effects. (The FDA and drug companies would monitor that more, but it was still important to take into consideration in their models.)
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