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PhD student Andrew Highton receives Nuffield Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Posted by on 23 September 2014 | Comments

PhD student Andrew Highton has won a prestigious Nuffield post-doctoral fellowship to Oxford University.

Andrew HightonThe Nuffield Dominions Trust at Oxford awards this post-doctoral fellowship every two years to one New Zealander, either a clinician or a scientist.

Andrew is currently studying in Ros Kemp’s lab, and will relocate to England next year to continue his research in immunology. He will focus on the induction of some virus-specific memory T cells, which are the cells responsible for the function of vaccines.

Read the press release on the University of Otago website.