The Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) has been breaking boundaries in bioengineering for more than 20 years, by applying engineering and technical innovation to advancing medical care and understanding of human physiology. The Institute’s worldleading research enhances the diagnosis and treatment of a range of medical conditions, as well as helping to improve the lives of people with injuries or disabilities. ABI researchers are working on everything from artificial intelligence avatars, to tiny implantable devices, to digital models of the human body.
Healthcare is increasingly moving towards personalised health plans for individual patients. The ability to model individual organ systems, then integrate this into whole body systems and provide comparisons across injury and disease states, will change the face of healthcare. The ABI aims to be at the forefront of this change.
The ABI collaborates with researchers from the Faculties of Engineering, Medical and Health Sciences, and Science. They share a common interest in developing engineering approaches to the understanding of biological systems in order to provide a basis for new approaches to medical diagnosis and therapy. The ABI is a melting pot of a great number of disciplines, with academics and postgraduate students from over 50 different countries and a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, which fosters a very creative environment. It also provides a vibrant and supportive environment for innovation in medical device technologies, having spun out more than 20 successful companies in the last decade, all based on their research. The ABI enjoys close affiliations with institutions around the world including Oxford University, Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Sheffield, the University of Melbourne and the National University of Singapore.