Citation | Peter Hunter pioneered modelling the human body using specially developed algorithms plus methods that incorporate detailed anatomical and microstructural measurements and material properties into continuum models, most notably of the heart. This enables an individual's genomic/proteomic data to be combined with medical image data in the diagnosis of disease. These are the first simulations that can span biological levels all the way from genes to the whole organ. The methods are being applied to the diagnosis of heart disease in clinical trials at hospitals in Auckland. He developed the CMISS which models the biophysics of the body. |