Funding success for the Maurice Wilkins Centre!

Monday, May 12th, 2014 | nif | Comments Off on Funding success for the Maurice Wilkins Centre!

Our laboratory is delighted at the renewal of funding for the Maurice Wilkins Centre for molecular biodiscovery, one of New Zealand’s Centres of Research Excellence (CoRE). Prof. Antony Braithwaite is an in-coming principal investigator for the Maurice Wilkins Centre and will contribute to the management of this key conduit for funding of biodiscovery in our country.

(media release) (NZ herald article)

Lottery Grant to support acquisition of a gamma irradiator

Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 | nif | Comments Off on Lottery Grant to support acquisition of a gamma irradiator

Dr. Nicholas Fleming is thankful to receive a $100,000 Lottery Health – Research Equipment grant to support the acquisition of a gamma irradiator. The equipment will be used by multiple research groups at Otago for sterilisation and radiation challenge of matter, reagents and biologicals. In our group, we will use the equipment to understand the p53 driven response to radiation damage in cultured cells as this process is one of our primary defences against cancer.

An award for Prof. Margaret Baird

Monday, December 9th, 2013 | nif | Comments Off on An award for Prof. Margaret Baird

Congratulations to Margaret Baird who has been awarded the Derrick Rowley Medal for her service to the Australasian Society for Immunology (ASI). Margaret received this award in honour of her contributions to the ASI which have included: NZ ASI councillor, ASI newsletter editor (for many years), co-founder of Immunet which provided support for the ASI NZ branch meeting and her various roles in meeting organisation (e.g. this year’s Infection and Immunity workshop).

(photograph: Susanne Heinzel)