Auckland Bioengineering Institute
Collaborations and associations
The Auckland Bioengineering Institute has close links with clinicians from the School of Medical and Health Sciences and the Auckland Hospital, and also with companies that market products and technologies for the health sector.
Of particular importance are the strong research collaborations that we enjoy with international universities and research institutes. These include: Oxford University and Leeds University in the United Kingdom; the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the University of Washington, Seattle, Vanderbilt University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States; and the National University of Singapore (NUS).
- BioInstrumentation Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- The Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
- Cardiac Mechanics Research Group, University of California, San Diego
- Cardiac Biomechanics Group at Columbia University
- Computational Bioengineering Group, Medical College of Wisconsin
- Division of Physiological Imaging, University of Iowa
- Systems Analysis, Modelling and Prediction Group, University of Oxford
- Systems Biology Group, Indiana University
The institute is associated with two Centres of Research Excellence, the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery and the New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. It is also collaborating with The Bioinformatics Institute, NZ BioMirror, the UK eScience project on integrative biology, and the Wellcome Trust Heart Physiome Project. The institute is a member of NZBIO and a participant in the KAREN network.
The Auckland Bioengineering Institute enjoys close ties with the following University of Auckland faculties and departments:
