He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware. Previous positons include: Postdoc--Cell, Molecular and Systems Biology, Beatson Institute for Cancer Research and University College Dublin (Walter Kolch); and Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Dept. of Pharmacological Sciences. The Birtwistle Lab combines computational and experimental methods to understand how cancer cells make decisions. Particular focus is given to brain tumors, though approaches can be applied to a multitude of cell and cancer types. Their goal is to build simulation models that can guide patient-specific therapies by accounting for mechanisms of drug action within the unique complexity of an individual’s tumor.