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Supporting students affected by COVID-19
5 October 2020
The Maurice Wilkins Centre is providing stipend extensions to PhD students whose progress has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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MWC COVID-19 science video translated into Samoan
3 September 2020
A COVID-19 explanatory science video produced by Maurice Wilkins Centre Deputy Director Professor Peter Shepherd has been translated into Samoan by Fiti Laupua, Annie Tuisuga and S
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MWC assisting with Samoa’s COVID-19 testing
5 July 2020
The Maurice Wilkins Centre has been working with the Scientific Research Organisation of Samoa (SROS) to obtain relevant equipment and protocols required for COVID-19 testing in Sa
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Getting New Zealand's only COVID-19 lab up and running
10 June 2020
While most of the country was in lockdown, a small team led by MWC investigators Professor Miguel Quiñones-Mateu and Associate Professor James Ussher were in their University of Ot
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MWC investigator backs COVID-19 vaccine search
27 May 2020
New Zealand scientists have already identified a number of potential COVID-19 vaccine candidates, according to Associate Professor James Ussher, MWC Associate Investigator at the U
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COVID-19 antibody testing underway in MWC labs
22 May 2020
MWC Principal Investigator Dr Nikki Moreland, Immunologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Auckland, is working with a team of researchers on lab-based COVID-19 antibody t
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MWC team awarded funding for COVID-19 research
3 May 2020
MWC researchers at the University of Auckland have been awarded Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) funding to investigate whether certain types of patent could be used for
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MWC link to promising COVID-19 treatment
24 April 2020
Professor Peter Tyler, MWC Associate Investigator at the Ferrier Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, created the antiviral drug Galidesivir which is in the front
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