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Liggins Institute
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Awards celebrate research excellence and innovation
24 October 2025
Celebrating Research Excellence Awards 2025 recognise University's top researchers, research support staff and best theses.
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Inside the new science of obesity
20 October 2025
Genetics, gut bugs, new drugs and surgery – how groundbreaking research is changing how we understand and treat one of our most intractable health problems.
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University of Auckland holds firm in world rankings
9 October 2025
The University remains No 1 in Aotearoa New Zealand and is ranked 156th globally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026.
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The (mostly) well-meaning war on pregnancy
1 October 2025
Opinion: Our tendency to simplify the complex factors that influence pregnancy often results in a myopic focus on individual behaviour says Jillian Hildreth.
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Preterm birth initiative at risk as funding ends
21 September 2025
The Carosika Community of Practice is helping clinicians across the country provide specialist services to prevent babies being born too early. Now its future hangs in the balance.
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Using AI to reshape lung disease diagnosis
15 September 2025
What if we could predict chronic lung disease years before symptoms appear? Liggins Institute researcher Dr Roan Zaied is using machine learning to do just that.
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Long Covid and immune dysfunction: is there a link?
4 September 2025
Dr Anna Brooks and alumnus Rohan Botica are working to understand complex chronic conditions involving immune dysfunction, including Long Covid, with the aim of improving diagnosis and clinical care.
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The good sh*t helping obese teens
28 August 2020
Can a capsule of healthy gut bugs change the future of obesity treatment? New findings from the University of Auckland’s Liggins Institute suggest it might.
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Caroline Crowther wins Gluckman medal for transforming healthcare
28 August 2025
Professor Caroline Crowther from the Liggins Institute has been awarded the prestigious Gluckman Medal, the University of Auckland’s highest honour for health research excellence.
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Liggins research given $5m in latest HRC funding
20 August 2025
A Liggins Institute nutrition project for preterm babies has been awarded $5 million over five years in the 2025 Health Research Council funding round.
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University researchers awarded $35.5m to address key health issues
19 August 2025
The Health Research Council's 2025 funding round supports researchers seeking answers to an array of pressing health issues.
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Swabs, scans and Star Trek: How healthcare is getting personal
15 August 2025
Imagine if doctors could bring together your DNA, medical history, lifestyle and even gut bacteria to deliver personalised treatments when you got sick