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New Zealand excellence in drug discovery attracts Asian science leaders
24 August 2012
A large delegation of science leaders from Asian industrial capitals is today visiting the Maurice Wilkins Centre to build relationships that will link New Zealand inventors into innovation networks within Asia.
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Investigators part of consortium awarded international grant
8 June 2012
The Wellcome Trust (UK) has approved a three-year, $NZ 8.8 million international grant to support a consortium of research groups in New Zealand and Australia to continue the development of a new class of immune-suppressive drugs to protect transplanted bone marrow stem cell...
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Investigator awarded major Health Research Council grant
7 June 2012
Maurice Wilkins Centre principal investigator Professor John Fraser and his research team at The University of Auckland were awarded significant funds in the annual Health Research Council of New Zealand grant round, for their research tackling infectious disease.
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Symposium on tuberculosis drug discovery and immunology
17 May 2012
This month the Maurice Wilkins Centre hosted a special two-day symposium on tuberculosis drug discovery and immunology highlighting links between New Zealand and Colorado State University. The event, which was open to all interested members of the scientific community, was h...
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Professor John Fraser appointed Dean of Medical and Health Sciences
29 February 2012
After an international search, Maurice Wilkins Centre principal investigator Professor John Fraser has been appointed as Dean of Medical and Health Sciences at The University of Auckland, becoming both the first alumnus and the first non-clinician to hold the position.
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Investigator named “Science bright spark”
15 January 2012
Associate Professor Michael Hay, a member of the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre and a Maurice Wilkins Centre investigator, has been named by New Zealand’s North & South magazine as amongst the country’s 2011 “science bright sparks”.
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Investigator receives New Year Honour
1 January 2012
The Maurice Wilkins Centre is delighted that one of its principal investigators, Distinguished Professor Margaret Brimble, was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to services in the 2012 New Year Honours.
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