Regular biography
Blanca Rodriguez is Professor of Computational Medicine at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on computational biology and health informatics, with an emphasis on digital twins and in silico trials for cardiology and pharmacology. She leads the Computational Cardiovascular Science team and has developed cardiac models and simulation software, including Virtual Assay for pro-arrhythmia prediction. Rodriguez is a Fellow of St Cross College and has received several awards, including a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship. She collaborates with industry, regulators, and academic institutions to advance medical innovation through interdisciplinary approaches.
Scholar-generated biography
Blanca Rodriguez is a researcher at the University of Oxford, specializing in Computational Medicine, Electrophysiology, and Pharmacology. Her work focuses on developing and validating computational models to advance precision cardiology and improve drug safety assessments. She has contributed to the development of digital twin technologies, in silico trials, and human ventricular myocyte models that simulate cardiac electrophysiology and drug interactions. Her research also explores the role of structural heterogeneity in cardiac electrical propagation and the application of machine learning to electrocardiogram analysis. Rodriguez's work emphasizes the integration of experimental data with computational techniques to enhance the predictive accuracy of biomedical models.