Professor Peter Hunter has won the prestigious Rutherford Medal, New Zealand’s top science honour. Peter Hunter is Director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and adjunct professor at CIGENE/UMB's Dept. of Mathematical Sciences. He won the medal for his leading role in the Physiome Project, a major international project that aims to build sophisticated computer models of all the human body’s organs. CIGENE is responsible for incorporating genetics in the Physiome Project, in close collaboration with Peter Hunter and Nic Smith's groups in Auckland and Oxford, respectively. Read more here.