PhD Students
In addition to our drive for health research discoveries, the Malaghan Institute is committed to educating, fostering and developing New Zealand scientists and clinicians, as we believe this is essential to the continuing success of scientific research in New Zealand.
To that end, we actively sponsor programmes for doctoral candidates and also provide special opportunities for selected students early in their academic training.
Current PhD students and projects
Haley Ataera (BSc, MSc) "Designing strategies to improve the T cell mediated immunotherapy of mouse tumours"
Clare Bai (BSc, MSc(Hons)) "The role of T regulatory cells in autoimmunity"
Nina Dickgreber (DipSci) "Improving vaccines with adjuvants that stimulate NKT cells"
Lisa Goldsack (BBmedSc(Hons)) "Dissecting the long-term memory response against Tuberculosis"
Dr Rebecca Grainger (BMedSci(Distinc), MBChB(Distinc)(Otago), FRACP) "Immune inflammation in neutrophilic disease - a study of gouty arthritis"
Marina Harvie (BSc(Hons)) "Timing and tissue distribution of allergen specific Th2 cells"
Joel Zhi-Iong Ma (BSc(Hons)) "Regulation of CD4+ T helper 2 cell responses by CD8+ T cells"
Willy-John Martin (BSc, MSc) "The role of macrophages in gouty arthritis"
Rachel Perret (BSc(Hons)) "Memory T cells develop from an in vitro-activated effector T cell population and can protect against tumours in vivo"
Dianne Sika-Paotonu (BSc, BBmedSc, MBmedSc(Hons)) "Increasing the potency of dendritic-cell based vaccines for the treatment of cancer"
Helen Simkins (BSc(Hons)) "Immune responses in perforin deficient mice"
Robert Weinkove (MA (Hons), MBBS (Hons), MRCPath) "Invariant natural killer T cells in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia"
