ELEM Biotech ^Company

ELEM is a start-up company conceived at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and host of MareNostrum supercomputer. ELEM is co-founded by BSC researchers Mariano Vázquez, Guillaume Houzeaux, José María Cela, and business consultant Chris Morton. The company has developed Alya Red, a set of simulation tools, which following a “Software-as-a-Service” model deployed in the cloud, focuses on medical devices and pharmaceutical industries. Alya Red simulates cardiovascular or respiratory systems on “virtual patients”. Combining high performance computing, computational biomechanics and data analysis, these computational avatars can be used by biomedical sector companies and clinicians to elaborate diagnoses, plan treatments, improve drug delivery and action, optimise medical devices, etc. ELEM headquarters are in Barcelona.