Modeling the Individuality of Health and Disease for More Accurate Decision Making

Shruti Motiwale won the Best Student Presentation Award at the International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE).

Motiwale is a graduate student working with the Willerson Center for Cardiovascular Modeling and Simulation at the Oden Institute.

• Natalie Simonian awarded a predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association
• Her research is in developing 3D models of patients' heart valves from ultrasound imaging.

• Three new cancer research projects chosen to receive seed funding as part of program in Oncological Data and Computational Science
• Third round of seed funding from collaboration between Oden Institute, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and Texas Advanced Computing Center 

• Ruth L. Kirschstein Fellowship designed to support highly promising postdoctoral candidates with the potential to significantly advance the study of health
• Postdoc chosen for her research on uncovering the cellular basis for aortic valve disease

• O’Donnell Postdoctoral Fellowship provides funding for outstanding graduates to perform high-level, computational research with exceptional faculty in an interdisciplinary environment
• Five new postdoctoral researchers join the Oden Institute community for the 2022-2023 academic year

• Award given once every four years to a single postdoctoral fellow
• Chengyue Wu chosen for her extremely creative and high impact contributions for diagnosing breast cancer and predicting its response to therapy

• Sacks received $3.7 million R01 grant from NIH to develop an accurate biomechanical model for breast cancer
• Collaborative effort with MD Anderson Cancer Center and UT Austin's Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

• Event honored 16 students that graduated in May 2022, as well as eight other students who graduated throughout the 2021-2022 academic year
• "Congratulations to all our PhD and Master's graduate students. Collectively, you represent an incredible set of accomplishments spanning computing, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, engineering, science, geoscience, and medicine."

• Awards Ceremony finally held in-person after two years of hiatus from COVID  
• Staff, students and faculty celebrated and recognized for their significant contributions throughout the year

• Five successful applicants gain the opportunity to tackle some of society's most pressing challenges 
• Researchers will take on a broad range of challenges - from water efficiencies, materials science at the exascale,  the development of more energy-efficient algorithms, as well as advancing individualized care for breast cancer patients     

• New research collaboration will integrate two emerging disciplines — computational oncology and machine learning — to transform the future of cancer care
• Project only made possible thanks to the generosity of Dheeraj and Swapna Pandey

• Casey Stowers awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP)
• Her research exploring methods for incorporating genetic data into a multi-scale mathematical model of tumor growth has broad implications for computational science generally

• Significant honor puts Wohlmuth in the company of scientific figures like Albert Einstein, Max Planck, Charles Darwin and Marie Curie
• Her election to the German National Academy of Sciences - as a computational applied mathematician – establishes the field as a principal core area for scientific knowledge

• David Hormuth and Caroline Chung awarded funding to further cancer research collaboration
• Research will model effects of therapies on brain cancer patients, incorporating patient-specific data with the aim of enabling personalized treatment

• New Graduate Portfolio in Computational Medicine combines novel and existing courses from across UT Austin to create a unique program in a rapidly expanding medical field
• "The practicing physician of the future needs to be able to understand how to think about data: how to visualize, interpret and accurately predict patient outcomes” 

• Second round of funded projects announced in cooperative research and educational program in Oncological Data and Computational Sciences
• Latest projects include new ways for identifying, characterizing and treating prostate cancer, blood-related cancer, liver cancer and skin cancer

• Public/private collaboration led by UT Austin uses new mathematical modeling technique to predict response of tumors in breast cancer patients to first-line therapies
• Research is “culmination of several years of work in a public-private partnership”  including Oden Institute, BME, Dell Med, Texas Oncology, Dell Seton Medical Center and Austin Radiological Association

• First time Oden Institute participates in 40 hours for the Forty Acres  
• Annual UT Austin fundraising event now in its ninth year

• 2021 Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellows bring variety of new skillsets and diverse research interests
• Scope of projects range from computational modeling at atomic scale to development of tsunami simulation techniques

• Peter O'Donnell, Jr. Chair in Computational and Applied Mathematics inducted with Tayfun Tezduyar from Rice University
• Tezduyar and Hughes first non-Japanese so honored by JACM

• 27-year-old PhD student working at the Center for Computational Oncology with Dr. George Biros.
• Subramanian was awarded BGCE Student Paper Prize for paper entitled, “A scalable inversion framework for brain tumor growth models in personalized medicine.”

• Rausch to work on five year proposal
• 'Towards a Fundamental Understanding of Why Thrombus Dissolves, Persists, or Breaks Off'

• Collaboration between Dell Med, Oden Institute, TACC, industry, government establishes Texas as computational medicine leader
• Interdisciplinary research group provides a unique combination of resources