Corinne Dahinden PhD student at the Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zurich

Computational modeling of molecular pathways in human renal cell carcinoma

"During my mathematics studies at the ETH I focused mainly on Applied Mathematics with a specialization in Statistics and Operations Research. After my studies I decided to do a Ph.D. and entered a Ph.D. programme in Statistics.
My Ph.D. thesis is made up of various projects, all in collaboration with biologists. Currently I am working with renal cell carcinoma data. There are methods to assess how active a certain gene is, and we in fact have information on this activity from a number of genes from patients with renal cell carcinoma. We hope to gain further insight into the underlying biological processes, both to help pathologists refine medication, and to enable early diagnoses of the cancer’s development so as to target it more specifically."