At Salve Regina University, students have been hard at work using mathematical modeling to enhance the understanding of Parkinson’s disease. This research, headed by Dr. Edward Dougherty, associate professor of mathematics, led mathematics major Toni McCoy and chemistry major Morgan Peritz to present at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle – the largest gathering of mathematicians in the world.
McCoy’s research, “A Machine Learning Based Approach for Reverse Engineering a Biomathematical Model of Parkinson’s Disease Intracellular Processes,” explored mathematical equations and machine learning to model biological processes of brain cells, potentially accelerating the development of new treatments.
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Students present neurological research at 2025 Joint Mathematics Meeting in Seattle
