29 - "Supercomputer-based populations of Virtual Human Twins for the cardiovascular realm"
Host:
Mariano Vázquez, PhD
Co-founder, President, and CTO of ELEM Biotech
Abstract:
In this talk results on the usage of supercomputing facilities to perform in-silico clinical trials on populations of Virtual Human Twins will be presented.
Mariano will briefly discuss the algorithms, show some examples - mostly of the cardiovascular system - and draw some conclusions and future work.
The importance of high performance computing and future supercomputer architectures will also be highlighted.
Short bio:
Mariano Vázquez (MV), PhD:
He is co-founder, President, and CTO of ELEM Biotech and since 2005 he has co-led the Alya Project in the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Alya is the parallel multi-physics multi-scale modelling tool which is the core of ELEM's Virtual Humans Population platform, Alya Red. His main research lines fall within Computational Science, such as Computational Bio-Mechanics (particularly Solid Mechanics of organic tissue and Electrophysiology) at the organ and system level. The Alya Red platform is a tool to study the cardiovascular system targeted to biomedical experts in academia, the medical devices sector, and the pharmaceutical industry. Infarction, drugs' cardiac risk, aging, aneurysms rupture risk, arrhythmias, stent design, or drug delivery are among the topics where such a tool can become a decisive help.
