Projects

Virtual Human ATLAS

AI-Ready Twin Library for Anatomy and Simulation

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and claims nearly 18 million lives
globally each year, yet cardiovascular research receives less than half the NIH funding directed to cancer.
The fastest path forward is not more funding alone — it is multiplying the return on the research that already exists.

The Virtual Human ATLAS is a proposed open-source initiative that would build on more than a decade of work
from the Living Heart Project to create a shared interoperability and credibility layer for virtual human organ models.
The goal is to make existing models — built by research teams across more than 150 organizations in 24 countries —
discoverable, composable, and legible to both researchers and AI-driven workflows.

ATLAS would not create new science. It would formalize the open-source code, datasets, and validated methods
already generated by the Living Heart Project ecosystem, making them machine-readable, AI-ready, and directly
connected to FDA regulatory credibility standards through the ENRICHMENT framework — a program co-led by
Steven Levine and the U.S. FDA.

The ENRICHMENT connection is what sets ATLAS apart. No other open-source project holds both the technical
maintainer role in this ecosystem and direct co-authorship of the regulatory credibility framework it encodes.
Regulatory credibility becomes a queryable property of the model — not a narrative attached to it.