She has a background in marketing and public relations and her debut novel Eversea was a finalist in the 2013 Winter Rose Contest for Contemporary Romance and won the 2014 Digital Book Award for Adult Fiction. “So looking at how we can make the space in the laboratories more safe so we are doing our mahi in a tika way because we are handling something I expect is tapu,” Ms Sword says. Natasha Boyd is an internationally bestselling and award-winning author of contemporary romantic southern fiction. The treatment involves taking T cells from the patient’s blood, adding a gene in the lab to help them attach to a specific cancer cell antigen, and then giving the cells back to the patient. A cancer researcher says one of the best parts of winning an award is the way it has put her in touch with other Māori in the field.ĭanielle Sword from Muaūpoko, Te Atiawa ki Whakarongotai, and Ngai Tahu, has been awarded a Māori cancer research scholarship from the Cancer Society and Māori Cancer Research Leadership Aotearoa Hei Āhuru Mōwai.Īs part of her PhD research with the University of Otago’s Malaghan Institute she’s looking at improvements to a form of cancer immunotherapy called CAR T-cell therapy and also investigating te ao Māori perspectives from patients and their whanau as it develops into a clinical service.
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