News & Media
2025
Congratulations to Dr. Butner for receiving the MD Anderson Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) New Faculty Award!
2024
Happy to share this interesting article about our work on .
We welcome Dr. Alexander Silalahi to the Butner Lab.
Congratulations to Drs. Butner and Chung for receiving the Andrew M. McDougall Brain Metastasis Clinic and Research Program FY25 Brain Metastasis Research Award.
MD Anderson¡¯s Institute for Data Science in Oncology announces appointment of inaugural IDSO Affiliates | March 2024
The Institute for Data Science in Oncology (IDSO) at MD Anderson today announced the appointment of its inaugural cohort of IDSO Affiliates. These 33 talented scientists, clinicians and staff, including Joseph Butner, Ph.D., bring diverse expertise to help IDSO leadership and focus area co-leads advance collaborative data science projects and align the institute¡¯s efforts with MD Anderson¡¯s mission to end cancer.
2023
Congratulations to Dr. Butner for receiving an MD Anderson Quantitative Imaging Analysis Core (QIAC) award with PIs Drs. Szklaruk and Koay.
Congratulations to Gayatri Prakash for receiving the Houston Methodist Academic Institute Brown, Smith, & Raymond EnMed Capstone Innovator Award.
Congratulations to Dr. Butner for receiving the Houston Methodist President's Award for Excellence in Peer-Reviewed Publication for his paper ¡°Mathematical modeling of cancer immunotherapy for personalized clinical translation,¡± .
2022
Thrilled to present updates on our immunotherapy modeling work at The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Life Sciences (LS22).
Great job Maguy Farhat (Chung Lab) on your fantastic presentation of our modeling work for predicting individual brain metastasis treatment response at the Radiological Society of North America 108th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting.
Excited to report our latest review on mathematical modeling of immunotherapy was accepted for .
2021
Congratulations to Dr. Butner for receiving the Houston Methodist President's Award for Excellence in Peer-Reviewed Publication for his paper ¡°A mechanistic immunotherapy model provides patient-specific quantification of immune response and associated long-term tumor burden,¡± .
Happy to share this great summary of our recent immunotherapy modeling work .
Congratulations to Dr. Butner for receiving a Wolfram Innovators Award for his work on mechanistic modeling of checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy.
about how we¡¯re using immunohistochemical staining-derived biomarkers to further validate the biological assumptions of our mathematical models.
2020
in IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering detailing our work in modeling ductal carcinoma in situ.
Excited to report that our innovative new mathematical model of immune checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy was .
We¡¯re happy to report that our mechanistic modeling work was recently .