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The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has been awarded $15 million to lead an international collaboration that aims to translate years of clinical research on the mathematical modelling of human physiology.
ABI Director, Distinguished Professor Peter Hunter (back) discusses their model of the rat heart with software developers Dr Alan Garny (middle) and Dr Nazanin Ebrahimi (front).
Funding for the 12 Labours project been awarded through the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employments (MBIEs) Catalyst Strategic Fund, and is one of the largest research grants that MBIE has awarded the University.
The project is named in reference to the 12 labours of Hercules, the tasks Heracles had to complete to be granted immortality, and also the 12 organ systems of the human body.