Center for Cancer Systems Biology

Carlos F. Lopez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biomedical Informatics and Pharmacology at VUSM. He is formally trained in the fields of chemistry, physics, biophysics, biochemistry, and molecular cell biology with a unique emphasis on the development and application of computational modeling techniques. Carlos and his group build cancer models across multiple spatiotemporal time-scales, using techniques from statistical mechanics, molecular simulation, mesoscale modeling, reaction kinetics, bridging the gap between single cells and cell populations. He has a deep commitment to interface experimental and theoretical groups in order to test and expand hypotheses, with the ultimate goal of achieving a fundamental understanding of the rules that govern cancer as a complex system.