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Amanda Randles

Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Biomedical Engineering
Box 90281, Durham, NC 27708
Wilkinson Building, Room No. 325, 534 Research Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


My research in biomedical simulation and high-performance computing focuses on the development of new computational tools that we use to provide insight into the localization and development of human diseases ranging from atherosclerosis to cancer.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Alfred Winborne and Victoria Stover Mordecai Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences · 2023 - Present Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering · 2023 - Present Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor of Computer Science · 2016 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science · 2022 - Present Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Pratt School of Engineering
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute · 2015 - Present Duke Cancer Institute, Institutes and Centers

In the News


Published April 10, 2025
New Center Brings Technological Advances to the Future of Health Care
Published March 12, 2025
Creating Digital Twins to Save Lives
Published December 19, 2024
Building Digital Twins for Individualized Health Care

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Recent Publications


Meet the winners of the 2024 Sony Women in Technology Award

Journal Article Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering · May 8, 2025 Full text Open Access Cite

Establishing a massively parallel computational model of the adaptive immune response

Journal Article Journal of Computational Science · May 1, 2025 Parallel agent-based models of the adaptive immune response can efficiently recapitulate emerging spatiotemporal properties of T-cell motility during clonal selection across multiple length and time scales. Here, we present a distributed, three-dimensional ... Full text Open Access Cite

Real-time virtual intervention for simple and serial coronary artery disease using the HarVI framework

Journal Article Journal of Computational Science · May 1, 2025 Virtual planning tools that provide intuitive user interaction and immediate hemodynamic feedback are crucial for cardiologists to effectively treat coronary artery disease. Current FDA-approved tools for coronary intervention planning require days of prel ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Dynamic models of the cardiovascular system capturing years, rather than heartbeats

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2022 - 2027

University Training Program in Biomolecular and Tissue Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1994 - 2027

Detection of Emergent Mechanical Properties of Biologically Complex Cellular States

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Berkeley · 2023 - 2027

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Education, Training & Certifications


Harvard University · 2013 Ph.D.