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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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International award for New Zealand drug inventor
20 November 2013
Maurice Wilkins Centre principal investigator Distinguished Professor Bill Denny has been named the recipient of the American Chemical Society’s 2014 Medicinal Chemistry Award.
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Top science communicator celebrated
13 November 2013
Maurice Wilkins Centre associate investigator Dr Siouxsie Wiles, from the University of Auckland, was last night awarded the 2013 Prime Minister’s Science Media Communication Prize.
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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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Emerging researcher honoured
28 August 2013
Congratulations to our affiliate investigator Dr Ghader Bashiri, a research fellow in structural biology at The University of Auckland, who won the 2013 illumina™ Emerging Researcher Award, presented at the recent Queenstown Molecular Biology Meeting.
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Investigator honoured by NZSBMB
28 August 2013
Congratulations to our investigator Associate Professor Debbie Hay, from the University of Auckland, on winning the 2013 New Zealand Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NZSBMB) prize.
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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 been elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the United Kingdom.
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