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Friday 16 December 2016 1:48pm

Emeritus Professor Frank Griffin, Director of Ag at Otago, received the Commercialisation Researcher Award at the Annual School of Biomedical Sciences Awards 2016.

Frank has led a team devoted to solving animal health problems since the mid 1980s, and his work has directly resulted in savings to the deer industry of approximately $80-90 million. The academic quality of his work has been acknowledged by his election as Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and he has also received the highly prestigious Pickering Medal. He founded the Disease Research Laboratory (now known as Disease Research Limited, operating under Otago Innovation Limited), to provide a commercial platform for diagnostic testing - an excellent example of the translation of academic research into commercial reality.

Emeritus Professor Frank Griffin receiving the Commercialisation Researcher Award by Professor Greg Cook at the Annual School of Biomedical Sciences Awards 2016
Professor Greg Cook presenting Emeritus Professor Frank Griffin with a Commercialisation Researcher Award at the School of Biomedical Sciences Awards 2016.

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