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
Research For Life congratulates Hannah van der Woude Hannah van der Woude, a Master’s Student at the University of Otago Wellington, recently won the University of Otago Wellington Health Sciences heat in the 3MT® competition. The 3MT® competition is open to both thesis Master’s and Doctoral students. Entrants must communicate their... Keep Reading
Nine medical researchers awarded $72,000 in October funding POSTED: 1 November 2017 The second funding round of 2017 funding from Research For Life saw nine Wellington-based medical researchers receive grants. Three applicants received a total of $62,914.00 to undertake innovative medical research and three travel grants totalling&... Keep Reading
Eleven Wellington-based medical researchers received grants in the first funding round of the year from the Research For Life. Five Research Grant applicants received a total of $47,095 to undertake medical research and a further six Travel Grants totalling $14,000 were approved to assist local researchers meet the cost of presenting their... Keep Reading
The Australian Synchrotron, the largest particle accelerator in the Southern Hemisphere, is helping scientists from all corners of the world, including more than 350 New Zealand researchers, to study everything from food technology to arts forgery, from brain function to fundamental physics, from climate change to cancer research. Keep Reading
Kate Obermeyer grew up thinking that the world sounded the same to everybody around her. It wasn’t until she was 11 that her hearing loss was discovered during a routine primary school check. She was fitted with hearing aids and presented with a devastating prognosis that she would be deaf by the time she was 40. Keep Reading
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