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Jorik Stoop’s New Paper in BMMB on Red Blood Cells and Tumor Cell Transport Is Now Available

Led by Jorik Stoop, with Aristotle Martin and Amanda Randles, the study extends adaptive physics refinement to investigate how red blood cells affect circulating tumor cell transport and adhesion.

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Jorik Stoop and Guinevere Ferreira Advance to PhD Candidacy

Congratulations to Guinevere Ferreira and Jorik Stoop, who both passed their preliminary examinations and have officially advanced to PhD candidacy.

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| Katy Hansell: The Impact Whisperer Podcast

Digital Twins and the Future of Proactive Healthcare

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| Cardiovascular Business

Cardiovascular Business Highlights Duke’s Digital Twin Technology

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| The Scientist

The Scientist Highlights Duke’s Work on Vascular Digital Twins

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Jakob Olsen Joins the Randles Lab as a Research Associate

The Randles Lab welcomes Jakob Olsen as a new Research Associate. Olsen will contribute to the lab’s research at the intersection of high performance computing, computational modeling, and patient-specific vascular digital twins.

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| Nature Biotechnology

Randles Lab research featured in Nature Biotechnology

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| R&D World

R&D World Highlights Adaptive Physics Refinement for Large Scale Cancer Simulations

Drug Discovery Online

| Drug Discovery Online

Randles Discusses the Evolving Role of Computational Mechanics in Drug Discovery

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Amanda Randles Delivers Opening Keynote at PEARC 2026

Amanda Randles delivered the opening keynote at PEARC 2026, celebrating ten years of the research computing community and sharing a vision for the future of high-performance computing, AI, and computational science.

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Guinevere Ferreira Presents Cardiovascular Digital Twin Research at IEEE EMBC 2026

PhD student Guinevere Ferreira presented a new pressure-scaling framework at IEEE EMBC 2026 that couples 1D and 3D cardiovascular models to recover clinically meaningful pressures for patient-specific digital twins without relying on invasive pressure measurements.

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Amanda Randles Promoted to Full Professor

Amanda Randles has been promoted to Full Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. The promotion recognizes her contributions to high performance computing, vascular digital twins, and computational medicine.

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Retrospective on the Lax Report: Four Decades of Progress in High-Performance Computing

More than forty years after the landmark 1982 Lax Report established a national vision for high-performance computing, an international team of HPC leaders revisits its recommendations and evaluates their impact on today's scientific computing landscape. The article explores advances in…

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New NEJM Editorial Explores the Scientific Foundations of Physiological Assessment for Coronary Artery Disease

Prof. Randles authored the accompanying New England Journal of Medicine editorial examining the scientific foundations of computationally enabled physiological assessment for coronary artery disease.

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Ayman Yousef Presents GPU Halo Replay at PASC 2026

PhD candidate Ayman Yousef presented GPU Halo Replay at PASC 2026, introducing a new approach for lossless, flexible in situ analysis that uses computational twin simulations to analyze large-scale HPC simulations without slowing the primary simulation or sacrificing fidelity.