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John to present at the 8th International Bio-Fluid Symposium

John received an oral presentation in a special session of Post Doctorate Fellows at next years's 8th International Bio-Fluid Symposium in Pasadena, CA. The conference will be held in February 2016. Congrats, John!

Professor Randles Randles names to the 2015 World Economic Forum Young Scientists List

Professor Randles was named to the World Economic Forum Youn Scientists List. 50 Young Scientists from around the world under the age of 40 are selected for their contributions to advance the frontiers of science, engineering or technology in areas of high societal impact. These scientists will…

Randles Named Finalist for Supercomputing’s Top Honor

Amanda Randles, a new assistant professor in biomedical engineering, has been named one of five finalists for this year’s Gordon Bell Prize—the top honor in the field of supercomputing. The $10,000 prize recognizes innovative applications of parallel computing to challenges in science,…

Hemodynamics Simulation Paper Wins Top Award at International Conference

Computation’s Amanda Randles and Erik Draeger and University of Arizona researcher Peter Bailey are coauthors of a paper that won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Computational Science, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, at the beginning of the month. …

Amanda Randles: Computing Complex Biological Systems

Professor Amanda Randles, a pioneer in using supercomputers to gain insight into biomedical challenges, will join Duke University’s Biomedical Engineering Department on July 1, 2015. Bringing with her computer models of how blood, particles and cells travel through our veins and arteries,…

Randles receives National Institutes of Health award to pursue cancer research

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory computational scientist Amanda Randles has received a Director's Early Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH Common Fund award provides funding to encourage exceptional young scientists to pursue "high risk, high reward…

Women @ Energy: Amanda Randles

Amanda Randles is a Lawrence Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).  She completed her PhD in Applied Physics at Harvard University with a secondary field in Computational Science. Her advisors were Efthimios Kaxiras and Hanspeter Pfister. She received her Bachelor's…

To stay a step ahead of breast cancer, make a map of the future

Cancer isn't a singular disease, even when talking about one tumor. A tumor consists of a varied mix of cells whose complicated arrangement changes all the time, especially and most vexingly as doctors and patients do their best to fight it. Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Cell…

New Computer Model May Aid Personalized Cancer Care

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists have developed a mathematical model to predict how a patient’s tumour is likely to behave and which of several possible treatments is most likely to be effective. Reporting in the journal Cell Reports, researchers combined several types of data from pre-…

Pressure and flow

The first large-scale simulation of blood flow in coronary arteries enlists a realistic description of the vessels’ geometries. Researchers reported on the simulation today at the SC10 supercomputing conference in New Orleans. Heart disease is called the silent killer. Heart attacks occur in…