Tom Franz was recently awarded a three-year NRF Collaborative Postgraduate Training Grant worth R2.7m.The research project is concerned with multiscale modelling of cell therapies for myocardial infarction with the aim to develop computational tools to study and optimise the mechanobiological interplay between stem cells, therapeutic biomaterials and the infarcted myocardium. The interdisciplinary research involves cell biology and biophysics, biochemistry, tissue and organ biomechanics, and mathematical and computational modelling. Collaboration with the University of California San Francisco, Harvard Medical School, Stanford University, University College London and the University of Southampton will enable exchange of researchers and students to provide word-class international experience and expertise as part of the research training.