Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs)

National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NRCGD)

The National Research Centre for Growth and Development brings together leading scientists from six partner organisations across New Zealand to address a single overarching question: what makes a healthy start to life?

Our internationally-recognised research seeks to reveal how events in early life affect mammalian development, with both short and long-term consequences for health and disease. The insights gained through this work will lead to new therapeutic and public health policy approaches to diseases with a developmental origin, as well as to improved productivity in farm animals.

The NRCGD:

• AgResearch
• Landcorp Farming
• The Liggins Institute
• Massey University
• The University of Auckland
• University of Canterbury
• University of Otago

Nga Pae o te Māramatanga
Nga Pae o te Māramatanga is one of seven centres of research centres that were funded by the New Zealand Government in 2002.

The Secretariat of Nga Pae o te Māramatanga is based at the University of Auckland and the Institute is made up of eight founding members:

• Auckland War Memorial Museum
• Manaaki Whenua/Landcare Research
• The University of Auckland
• The University of Otago
• Victoria University
• Waikato University
• Te Wānanga o Aotearoa
• Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiarangi

Vision
Transformation of NZ society such that Māori participate fully in all aspects of society and the economy.

Mission
To provide excellent research, training and knowledge transfer.
 

Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery (CMB)
The genomic revolution in the biological sciences offers arguably the greatest challenges and opportunities of today: extracting new knowledge from genome sequence data, developing new therapies, and developing an understanding of whole cell behaviour. Ideas, innovation, and a merging of traditional disciplines are required to meet these challenges.

The overall goal of The Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery (CMB) is to address the challenges and opportunities of this genomic revolution in the biological sciences by integrating five research groups from the University of Auckland, with extensive national and international networks and complementary skills in the following areas:

• Structural biology (led by Prof. Ted Baker)
• Microbial biology, molecular immunology and bioinformatics (led by Prof. John Fraser)
• Chemotherapeutic drug development (led by Prof. Bill Denny)
• Proteomics and drug discovery (led by Prof. Garth Cooper)
• Bioengineering and advanced mathematical modeling (led by Prof. Peter Hunter)

We believe that these fields of research are of vital importance to New Zealand.

The "post-genomic" era offers huge wealth generating opportunities in biomedicine and biotechnology for those equipped with the right skills and knowledge to be able to extract and use the information in an intuitive way. It is "knowledge-driven" research that is highly appropriate for a small country like New Zealand; good ideas can be developed as well here as anywhere.

New Zealand Institute of Maths and its Applications (NZIMA)
The principal aims of the New Zealand Institute of Maths and its Applications (NZIMA) are to:

• create and sustain a critical mass of researchers in concentrations of excellence in mathematics and statistics and their applications
• provide NZ with a source of high-level quantitative expertise across a range of areas
• act as a facilitator of access to new developments internationally in the mathematical sciences, and
• raise the level of knowledge and skills in the mathematical sciences in NZ.