Blanca Rodriguez
Professor of Computational Medicine
Dpartment of Computer Science
University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Biography
Blanca is graduated as an Electronics Engineer from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain, in 1997. She then started a PhD in the Integrated Laboratory of Bioengineering supervised by Prof. Chema Ferrero and at the same time became an Assistant Professor in Electronics and Biomedical Instrumentation at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. In 2004, she won the First Prize in the Young Investigator Award Competition in Basic Science of the Heart Rhythm Society. After spending two years in New Orleans, she joined Oxford University in August 2004, as a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. David Gavaghan, funded by the Integrative Biology Project. From 2007 to 2013, Blanca Rodriguez held a Medical Research Council Career Development fellowship and she has also been awarded funding by European Comission, Royal Society, EPSRC, Wellcome Trust, BHF and Leverhulme Trust. She is currently a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic biomedical Science and Professor of Computational Medicine.
Research Interest
Blanca's research interest is in the investigation of causes and modulators of variability in the response of the heart to disease and therapies.
Publications
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Passini E, Britton O, Lu HR, Gallacher DJ, Rohrbacher J, An H, Bueno-Orovio A, Rodriguez B. In silico prediction of drug effects on human ventricular electrophysiology using the Virtual Assay software and comparison to in vitro data. Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods. 2016(81):345-6.
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Britton OJ, Bueno-Orovio A, Virág L, Varró A, Rodriguez B. The Electrogenic Na+/K+ pump is a Key Determinant of Repolarization Abnormality Susceptibility in Human Ventricular Cardiomyocytes: A Population-Based Simulation Study. Frontiers in physiology. 2017;8.
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Sánchez C, Bueno-Orovio A, Pueyo E, RodrÃguez B. atrial Fibrillation Dynamics and ionic Block effects in six heterogeneous human 3D Virtual atria with Distinct repolarization Dynamics. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology. 2017;5.
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Paci M, Passini E, Severi S, Hyttinen J, Rodriguez B. Phenotypic variability in LQT3 human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes and their response to anti-arrhythmic pharmacological therapy: an in silico approach. Heart Rhythm. 2017 Jul 27.
