Modeling of radiation-induced lung injuries - a conversation with Nicolò Cogno

Our Nicolò Cogno has been interviewed by Leon Kaysan, of TU Darmstadt's Friday Science Bites





Nicolò talks about radiation therapy with heavy ions, and  soon dives into his efforts to develop agent-based models of radiation-induced lung damage (fibrosis)

Listen to the conversation of Nicolò and Leon here.


From about 10min32sec Nicolò gets down to talking about the learning curve involved in translating biology into computational rules, and the challenges of developing biologically realistic and medically relevant agent based models (he is currently pushing his simulations to 1 year of evolution after the "irradiation" for an alveolar segment, of the scale of 600um) ...but don't let us spoil the episode and do listen to the whole podcast, especially if you are a young researcher it's important to learn not just about the science but the human experience of a research endeavour ^_^

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