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Malaghan Institute of Medical Research @malaghan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The Malaghan Institute has been awarded four grants from the prestigious Marsden Fund to explore bold new ideas in cancer, allergy and infectious disease research. www.malaghan.org.nz/news-and-res...

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Marsden funding to drive discovery and innovation in cancer, allergy and infectious disease research

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Malaghan Institute of Medical Research @malaghan.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The Malaghan Institute’s CAR T-cell programme has won the PwC Breakthrough Project Award at the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards 2025, recognising a breakout project that has recently launched to success and demonstrates best-practice commercialisation of publicly-funded research.

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Malaghan Institute of Medical Research @malaghan.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

The Malaghan’s Dr Lisa Connor spoke with RNZ's Ruth Hill about the extraordinary potential of mRNA technology – from infectious disease, cancer and autoimmune diseases to rare conditions – and why New Zealand’s role is more vital than ever.

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US funding cuts make NZ vaccine research more critical

Fortunately, New Zealand now has the capacity to develop home-grown vaccines, through the mRNA Platform, which has received $70m in government funding.

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Malaghan Institute of Medical Research @malaghan.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The Malaghan Institute has been awarded three Health Research Council grants, totalling $7.4M over five years, to improve cancer immunotherapies, protect vulnerable populations from measles outbreaks and investigate new therapeutic targets for eczema

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Cancer, measles and allergic disease research funded in latest HRC grants round

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Michelle Linterman @linterman.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Fantastic to have Johanne Jacobsen at @malaghan.bsky.social this week presenting her beautiful work on germinal centre T cells, in all their complexity.

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Babraham Institute @babrahaminst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Postdoc Theresa Pankhurst is redefining leadership! As a Kia Niwha Leader Fellow, she is exploring leadership through the lens of Māori history, culture, and perspectives. “Leadership takes many forms,” she says—and she’s proving it every day 🙌 #IWD2025 @linterman.bsky.social @malaghan.bsky.social

Image shows Theresa Pankhurst. Text reads: Theresa Pankhurst, Honorary research fellow. Te Niwha Infestious Diseases Platform Kia Niwha Leader Fellow

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Rebecca Palmer @rsjpalmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Had a great time presenting my poster at ASI2024 Sydney Australia! We’re studying how the lung’s cellular landscape shifts during infection and influences future infections, using high-dimensional flow cytometry to profile and characterise pulmonary cells at steady state and during infection! 🫁

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Malaghan Institute of Medical Research @malaghan.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Prof Kjesten Wiig has been appointed Director of the Malaghan Institute as Professor Graham Le Gros continues in a leadership capacity as Deputy Chair of the Trust Board and advisor to the new Director @grahamlegros.bsky.social

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Kjesten Wiig appointed Director of Malaghan Institute as Graham Le Gros steps into new role

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Kerry Hilligan @kerryhilligan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Super privileged to have been apart of this amazing tour-de-force study from @pauljbaker.bsky.social, @mayerbarber.bsky.social and team showing how inflammatory history of the 🫁 alters susceptibility to #covid19. Congrats team!! 🎉🎉

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