Dr Chris Puli’uvea, from the School of Science, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Worth $820,000 over the next four years, the New Zealand Mana Tūāpapa Future Leader Fellowship will enable Dr Puli’uvea to continue researching genetic variants that affect the immune system and are unique to Māori and Pacific peoples.
“I am really honoured to receive this award which will enable me to engage with Māori and Pacific communities to develop culturally sensitive approaches to studying how genetic variation relates to immunological differences,” he says.
