by pwan345 | Dec 18, 2025 | SMS, SMS - this issue
To support a major industry partnership, Nikki Moreland and her team have established a specialised PC2 laboratory within the School. The lab will serve as a central hub for analysing Strep A vaccine efficacy by running gold-standard assays that measure functional...
by pwan345 | Dec 18, 2025 | SMS, SMS - this issue
Congratulations to Callan Loomes for winning the ‘Clinical Translation Award’ at Matai’s 2-days ‘image of the future’ symposium. Callan’s PhD is titled ‘Auto-segmentation and Quantification of Cortical Neurons in Histopathological Brain Images from Fetal Sheep after...
by pwan345 | Dec 18, 2025 | SMS, SMS - this issue
Congratulations to the academic staff from the School of Medical Sciences listed below who have been promoted to Associate Professor in the 2025 academic staff promotion round. With effect from 1 February 2026, the promotions to Associate Professor are: Fiona...
by pwan345 | Dec 18, 2025 | SMS, SMS - this issue
We welcome new PhD student Sophia Wilson, who has transferred from a research master’s into a PhD under the supervision of Associate Professor Julie Spicer, Associate Professor Jack Flanagan, Dr Anna Giddens, and Associate Professor Chris Squire. Her project focuses...
by pwan345 | Dec 18, 2025 | SMS, SMS - this issue
We welcome new PhD student Janneke Grundemann, who will be working under the supervision of Dr Emma Nolan, Professor Rod Dunbar, and Dr Saem Park. Her research focuses on mapping macrophage diversity in breast cancer, aiming to identify distinct macrophage phenotypes...
by pwan345 | Nov 28, 2025 | SMS, SMS - this issue
A new study by researchers at the University of Auckland was published recently in BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. The study identifies major diet inequities among New Zealand adolescents – analysing data from more than 4,000 12-year-olds – and...
