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Centre celebrates science communication award
28 November 2013
Maurice Wilkins Centre investigator Dr Siouxsie Wiles from the University of Auckland was honoured at the Royal Society of New Zealand’s awards ceremony last night.
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Prestigious honour for two Centre investigators
21 November 2013
The Maurice Wilkins Centre is celebrating the election of two of its incoming principal investigators as Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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Hands-on scientific research for school students
14 October 2013
The Maurice Wilkins Centre is delighted to have helped secondary school students from around the upper North Island attend a unique hands-on science day recently. The Centre provid
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New chemistry transforms vaccine manufacture
2 October 2013
Honours student Tom Wright, from The University of Auckland, has created a new kind of chemistry to dramatically simplify the manufacture of drugs targeting the immune system, and
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Chemist wins prestigious emerging-researcher fellowship
2 October 2013
Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Sperry from the University of Auckland, the latest Maurice Wilkins Centre investigator to be awarded a prestigious Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.
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Scholarships give teachers access to cutting-edge science
30 August 2013
The Maurice Wilkins Centre sponsors scholarships for high-school biology teachers to attend Queenstown Research Week.
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Centre members win $29 million in national health research funding round
6 June 2013
The Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery is delighted that members of its national research network have received a total of $29 million in the annual Health Research
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Prestigious honour for New Zealand medical researcher
15 May 2013
Professor Garth Cooper (DPhil (Oxon), MB, ChB, FRCPA, FRSNZ) from The University of Auckland and University of Manchester, and a Maurice Wilkins Centre principal investigator, has
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