Professor Laura Bennet, Dr Joanne Davidson and Professor Alistair Gunn, Department of Physiology won 2021 University of Auckland Research Excellence team medal.

Congratulations to, Nour Ghamri and Wouter van Leeuwen, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre who successfully defended their thesis.

Congratulations to Victoria King, Simerdeep Dhillon, Michael Beacom, Benjamin Lear, Christopher Lear, Mark Gunning who won the 2021 Velocity Innovation Challenge.

Dr Stephen Ritchie and Associate Professor Mark Thomas in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology, with co-investigators has been awarded a grant of $1.2 million to conduct a 3 year project aimed at reducing prescribing of antibiotics by GPs for patients with upper respiratory tract infections.

Congratulations to the staff and students for their awards from the American Physiological Society for the Experimental Biology (EB) meeting.

This invaluable book is written by S. Ali Mirjalili and Quentin Fogg.

Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles is New Zealander of the Year 2021

Dr Nikki Mills is a Paediatric ENT Surgeon with a special interest, specialising in paediatric airway and swallowing disorders.

Dr David Musson is a newly appointed Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nutrition.