Innovators Under 35
INNOVATIVE Visionaries
V8. Amanda Randles, 34
Duke
University
Personalized simulations of blood flow
in the body.
Amanda Randles, an
assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke University, is building
software that simulates blood flowing throughout the human body in a model
based on medical images of a particular person. The code base is called
“HARVEY,” after William Harvey, a 17th-century surgeon who first described the
circulatory system. The software requires a supercomputer to crunch
calculations on the fluid dynamics of millions of blood cells as they move
through the blood vessels. Randles has other plans for her fluid-dynamic model
of the circulatory system. Next up: scanning newborns with heart problems to
guide surgeons and predicting how cancer cells move through the body.
—Antonio Regalado
—Antonio Regalado
MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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