Rana Parshad, associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, along with colleagues Aishwarya Pawar (Department of Engineering), Ratul Chouwhury (Department of Chemical and Bio Engineering), and Jeff Essner (Department of Genetics, Development, and Cell Biology), have been awarded an NSF grant to develop a novel multiscale digital twin framework to predict and control blood vessel growth by integrating molecular signaling dynamics, cellular migration behavior, sprouting patterns, and tissue-level growth and remodeling.
The project’s integration of mathematics, gene editing, and computational modeling will help train a new generation of scientists at the nexus of mathematics and medicine.