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Liggins Institute
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From human milk to flying yoga: a PhD journey
10 December 2024
Liggins PhD student Clara Han has helped us understand how nutrition supports healthy mums and their babies. Now it's time to take her expertise to the world.
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Researchers awarded total of $7.78m from Health Research Council
2 December 2024
In its latest funding round the Health Research Council has awarded funding to researchers at the University of Auckland.
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Royal Society supports future research leaders
15 November 2024
University of Auckland researchers recognised as future leaders with a total of $6.56m in Royal Society fellowships.
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Research to set children on path to success wins special Marsden funding
6 November 2024
A Marsden Fund Council grant of $3m for a nationwide programme to understand the factors children need to succeed in life is a feature in the 2024 Marsden funding round.
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Sport champ emerges from Auckland steroid study
21 October 2024
Electra Kalaugher was a prem baby and part of the Auckland Steroid Study 50 years ago. She sometimes wonders if the treatment, now standard practice, might have 'helped' her sports career.
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University in top 8 percent globally in THE World University Rankings
9 October 2024
The University of Auckland is No 1 in New Zealand and 152 in the world in the prestigious Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2025.
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Baby Isla benefits from 60-year Liggins family link
8 October 2024
Holocaust survivor Lewis Bieder donated medications for critical Kiwi research more than 50 years ago. He had no idea it would help millions of babies worldwide – including a member of his family three generations on.
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Impressive showing for Liggins researchers in global impact list
7 October 2024
The 2024 Stanford Elsevier list of the Top Two Percent of Scientists in the world includes six academics from the Liggins Institute, an impressive achievement for a small institute.
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From science fiction to science fact
4 October 2024
Analysis: Robyn May describes how she and her team developed a digital twin of newborn babies, which could help answer questions about why babies born preterm are likely to have cardiovascular problems throughout life.
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How gestational diabetes can affect mental health
26 September 2024
Analysis: NZ should consider adopting Germany’s approach of routinely screening for mental health problems in women who get gestational diabetes writes Phyllis Ohene-Agyei
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From babies' bedsides to bioengineering
4 September 2024
There are many ways to improve outcomes for premature babies, says new Liggins-ABI PhD graduate Robyn May. She chose “sexy maths and statistics”.
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For the good of the babies, we need more milk banks
7 August 2024
Opinion: A national network of well-resourced and properly funded breast milk banks in New Zealand would enhance early life nutrition and provide safe, equitable access to donor milk, says Mariana Muelbert.