National Research Centre for Growth and Development

The Liggins-led virtual research network, the National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NRCGD) was established in 2003. In 2007 the government renewed and increased funding for a further six years.

The NRCGD strengthens the Liggins' research in growth and development by facilitating close collaborations with researchers at New Zealand’s leading research organisations.

The research focuses on understanding how biological cues in the earliest stages of life can have consequences throughout the life course that impact on human health and disease, and productivity in agriculture. The NRCGD has a strong drive to translate discoveries in basic science into strategies that will stimulate growth of a knowledge-based economy while building our science based workforce and improving the public understanding of science.

Many Liggins Institute staff and students are also members of the NRCGD. This creates opportunities for them to engage in joint research programmes with members of the NRCGD based at other organisations. It gives them access to new and additional ideas, resources and funding.

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About Centres of Research Excellence (CoREs)

NRCGD unites researchers and graduate students with interests in growth and development across

• The University of Auckland
• The University of Otago
• The University of Canterbury
• Massey University
• AgResearch
• Landcorp Farming