International
The Maurice Wilkins Centre has taken a lead in developing scientific links with other countries, notably in Asia. Activities like these require long-term vision and commitment of resources, and the ability to work across New Zealand's institutions – attributes of Centres of Research Excellence that are of increasing value to the country.
The Centre also contributes to, and benefits from, an extensive network of national and international collaborations built by our investigators over a number of years. Research supported by the Centre has strengthened many of these existing links and helped to establish new collaborations.
Networking with countries
Asia Region
The Centre is building links across the Asia region, including with major industrial capitals. As a national Centre of Research Excellence it provides international scientists with a single “shop window” for New Zealand expertise in areas such as immunology and drug discovery – fields in which we have particular strength – and in turn enables local scientists to access the international arena.
China
The Centre is building strategic links with China in biomedical science, at the institute, region and state level. This was a particular focus in 2012 and culminated that year with an official visit by State Councillor LIU Yandong, now a Vice-Premier of the People’s Republic of China. In 2018, the Centre hosted another official visit by the Party Secretary of Guangdong Province, His Excellency LI Xi and other high level dignitaries.
Since 2012, the strong relationship has included reciprocal scientific delegations, visits by national and provincial leaders from China, and other Chinese government representatives.
NETWORKING WITH INSTITUTIONS AROUND THE WORLD
North America
Albert Einstein College of Medicine (United States)
Baylor University (United States)
British Columbia Cancer Agency (Canada)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (United States)
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (United States)
Cleveland Clinic (United States)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (United States)
Colorado State University (United States)
Columbia University Irving Medical Center (United States)
Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (United States)
Duke University (United States)
Flagship Labs 97, Inc. (FL97) (United States)
Florida State University (United States)
Genetics of Subsequent Coronary Heart Disease (GENIUS-CHD) Consortium (United States)
Georgia Institute of Technology (United States)
Georgia State University (United States)
Global Alliance for Tuberculosis Drug Development (United States)
Harvard University (United States)
Hospital for Sick Children (Canada)
Houston Methodist Research Institute (United States)
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (United States)
Johns Hopkins University (United States)
Kent State University (United States)
Masonic Medical Research Institute (United States)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States)
McMaster University (Canada)
Moffitt Cancer Center (United States)
Montreal Heart Institute (Canada)
National Cancer Institute (United States)
New York State Department of Health (United States)
NYU Grossman School of Medicine (United States)
Pennsylvania State University (United States)
Research Triangle Institute (United States)
Rockefeller University (United States)
Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Stanford University (United States)
Stony Brook University (United States)
Temple University (United States)
Texas A&M University (United States)
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (United States)
Université de Montréal (University of Montreal) (Canada)
Université du Québec (University of Quebec) (Canada)
University of Alabama (United States)
University of Alabama at Birmingham (United States)
University of Alberta (Canada)
University of Arizona (United States)
University of British Columbia (Canada)
University of California, Berkeley (United States)
University of California, Irvine (United States)
University of California, Los Angeles (United States)
University of California, San Diego (United States)
University of Connecticut (United States)
University of Georgia (United States)
University of Guelph (Canada)
University of Illinois Chicago (United States)
University of Iowa (United States)
University of Kentucky (United States)
University of Maryland (United States)
University of Miami (United States)
University of Michigan (United States)
University of Minnesota (United States)
University of Missouri (United States)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (United States)
University of Pennsylvania (United States)
University of Pittsburgh (United States)
University of Rochester (United States)
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Utah (United States)
University of Washington (United States)
University of Western Ontario (Canada)
University Ottawa (Canada)
UT Health San Antonio (United States)
UT Southwestern Medical Center (United States)
Vanderbilt University (United States)
Versatope Therapeutics
Virginia Tech (United States)
Weill Cornell Medical College (United States)
Wesleyan University (United States)
United Kingdom and Europe
Aelis Farma (France)
Cardiff University (United Kingdom)
Centre de Recherche en Biologie cellulaire de Montpellier (France)
Centre D'immunologie Marseille-Luminy (France)
Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies (France)
Copenhagen University (Denmark)
Danish Headache Centre (DHC) (Denmark)
deCODE Genetics (Iceland)
Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen e. V. (DZNE) (Germany)
Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) (Switzerland)
ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany)
Imperial College London (United Kingdom)
Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale (IPBS) (France)
Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) (France)
Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (BIOCEV) (Czech Republic)
Institute of Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC) (France)
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Italian Institute of Technology) (Italy)
Itä-Suomen yliopisto (University of Eastern Finland) (Finland)
Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
Kings College London (United Kingdom)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (United Kingdom)
Max Planck Institute (Germany)
Medical University of Vienna (Austria)
MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit (MBU) (United Kingdom)
Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Northumbria University (United Kingdom)
Precision Medicine Maastricht (Netherlands)
PZMS Center for Molecular Signaling (Germany)
Queen's University Belfast (United Kingdom)
Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands)
Research Institutes of Sweden (Sweden)
Sorbonne Universities (France)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (Switzerland)
Szegedi Tudományegyetem (Hungary)
Technical University of Munich (Germany)
Trinity College Dublin (Republic of Ireland)
Universidad de Murcia (University of Murcia) (Spain)
Università degli Studi di Padova (University of Padua) (Italy)
Università degli studi di Parma (University of Parma) (Italy)
Universität Basel (University of Basel) (Switzerland)
Universität Leipzig (Leipzig University) (Germany)
Université Côte d'Azur (Côte d'Azur University) (France)
Université de Montpellier (University of Montpellier) (France)
Université de Picardie Jules Verne (University of Picardy Jules Verne) (France)
University College London (United Kingdom)
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany)
University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands)
University of Bologna (Italy)
University of Bordeaux (France)
University of Bradford (United Kingdom)
University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
University of Dundee (Scotland)
University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom)
University of Exeter (United Kingdom)
University of Freiburg (Germany)
University of Galway (Republic of Ireland)
University of Glasgow (Scotland)
University of Graz (Austria)
University of Iceland (Iceland)
University of Innsbruck (Austria)
University of Liverpool (United Kingdom)
University of Lyon (France)
University of Maastricht (Netherlands)
University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
University of Paris-Saclay (France)
University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
University of St Andrews (Scotland)
University of Surrey (United Kingdom)
University of Vienna (Austria)
University of Warwick (United Kingdom)
University of York (United Kingdom)
University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Uppsala universitet (Sweden)
Vaccine Formulation Institute (Switzerland)
Vilnius University (Lithuania)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels) (Belgium)
Wellcome Trust (United Kingdom)
Asia Pacific
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore)
Australian Genomics (Australia)
Australian National University (Australia)
Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute (Australia)
Charles Perkins Centre (Australia)
Chiba Univsersity (Japan)
Children's Cancer Institute (Australia)
Children's Medical Research Institute (Australia)
China University of Petroleum (China)
Chongqing Medical University (China)
Deakin University (Australia)
Duke Kunshan University (China)
Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore)
Edith Cowan University (Australia)
Fiji National University (Fiji)
Flinders University (Australia)
Fudan University (China)
Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China)
Garvan Institute for Medical Research (Australia)
Garvan Institute of Medical Research (Australia)
Griffith University (Australia)
Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health (GIBH) (China)
Guangzhou University (China)
Hanoi University of Science and Technology (Vietnam)
Heart Research Institute Australia (Australia)
Hebei Normal University (China)
Jinan University (China)
John Curtin School of Medical Research (Australia)
Kanazawa University (Japan)
Keio University (Japan)
Kids Research Institute Australia (Telethon Kids Institute) (Australia)
Kyungpook National University (KNU) (South Korea)
La Trobe University (Australia)
Lowy Cancer Research Institute (Australia)
Macquarie University (Australia)
Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) (India)
Ministry of Health Tonga (Tonga)
Monash University (Australia)
Murdoch Children's Research Institute (Australia)
Murdoch University (Australia)
Nagasaki University (Japan)
Nankai University (China)
Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
National Center for Protein Sciences (China)
National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Ocean University of China (China)
Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (Japan)
Peking University (China)
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (Australia)
Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Australia)
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) (Australia)
Scientitic Research Organisation of Samoa - SROS (Samoa)
Shandong University (China)
Sichuan University (China)
South China University of Technology (China)
St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research (Australia)
Sun Yat-sen University (China)
Sungkyunkwan University (South Korea)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Australia)
Tonga National University (Tonga)
Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)
Universitas Indonesia (Indonesia)
Universitas Padjadjaran (Indonesia)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Malaysia)
Universiti Malaya (Malaysia)
University of Tokyo (Japan)
University of Adelaide (Australia)
University of Guam (Guam)
University of Melbourne (Australia)
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of Newcastle (Australia)
University of Papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea)
University of Queensland (Australia)
University of South Australia (Australia)
University of Sydney (Australia)
University of Tokyo (Japan)
University of Western Australia (Australia)
University of Western Sydney (Australia)
University of Wollongong (Australia)
Victoria University (Australia)
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI) (Australia)
Zhejiang University (China)
South America
Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)
Additional Regions
Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences (Iran)
Higher Colleges of Technology (United Arab Emirates)