Recipients
View recipients of the Hercus Medal.
Latest recipient
Mike Dragunow won the 2024 Hercus Medal for his world-leading research on the causes and treatments of disorders of the brain.
Previous recipients
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2022 |
Stephen Robertson for research on genetic conditions impacting children and seeking to establish equitable delivery of genomic medicine for Māori. |
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2020 |
No award |
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2018 |
Brett Delahunt for his internationally recognised contributions as a pathologist, especially in relation to kidney and prostate cancer. |
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2016 |
Richard Beasley for his significant contribution to the advancement of respiratory medicine and health science research in New Zealand |
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2014 |
Parry Guilford for his work that established the gene mutation that can lead to hereditary stomach cancer in families |
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2012 |
John Fraser for his pioneering studies on bacterial superantigens which have major implications for understanding and treating human infectious diseases |
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2010 |
Alistair Gunn for his exceptional contribution to perinatal physiology and clinical medicine both as a research scientist making breakthrough discoveries and as a research leader who is able to turn his research discoveries into clinically successful outcomes for babies |
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2008 |
Mark Richards for his cardiovascular research for more than 30 years. Mark is one of the leading clinical scientists in the broad area of translational cardiovascular biology and medicine |
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2006 |
Bruce Charles Baguley for his significant contribution to the development of new cancer therapeutics |
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2004 |
Joel Ivor Mann for his extended series of related studies of nutrition in relation to diabetes and cardiovascular disease |
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2002 |
No award |
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2000 |
David Anthony Dougall Parry for his extended series of related studies of the chemistry, physics, biochemistry, ultratructure, and biological function of fibrous proteins |
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1999 |
David Christopher Graham Skegg for consistently maintaining the highest standards in public health science and policy |
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1998 |
Peter David Gluckman for his pioneering work on the physiology of fetal growth and maturation, and the origins of brain injury at birth |
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1997 |
Anthony Edmund Reeve for research into applying DNA technology to develop an understanding of the genomic changes that lead to the onset of cancer |