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Wellington-based medical researchers have received up to $63,680 in Research For Life’s first funding round for 2024. Research For Life funds innovative quality research undertaken by researchers in the early stages of their careers who, through their work, will advance the quality of healthcare in the Wellington region and... Keep Reading

Wellington-based medical researchers have received up to $228,138 in Research For Life’s first funding round for 2024.   Research For Life funds innovative quality research undertaken by researchers in the early stages of their careers who through their work, will advance the quality of healthcare in the Wellington region and... Keep Reading

Important and exciting news from Malaghan Institute. Research For Life is proud to have played a small part in these achievements.  New Zealand’s first trial of a ground-breaking cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy has shown the promise of being safer than leading commercial CAR T-cell products in treating certain types of blood... Keep Reading

illumina™, an international biotechnology company, developed the award to recognise and acknowledge an emerging researcher who uses molecular biology tools in New Zealand. It was presented to Dr Sharrock as part of Queenstown Research Week, Aotearoa’s biggest annual scientific gathering. Abby was awarded a Research For Life Post-Doctoral... Keep Reading

Last week, Wellington plastic surgeon Dr Swee Tan was reported (June 30) to have questioned the "hype" around cancer immunotherapy drugs such as Keytruda, referring to them as being hugely expensive and only partially effective, and claiming that they "don't attack cancer stem cells", with only one in three patients responding with tumour... Keep Reading