19 Sep 2024

The teamwork that solved a life-and-death puzzle

From Our Changing World, 5:00 am on 19 September 2024

It's been almost 30 years since a team joined forces to investigate a particularly aggressive form of stomach cancer that was afflicting one Tauranga whānau. Kimi Hauora Health and Research Clinic in Tauranga and University of Otago geneticists together found the cancer-causing genetic change, helping save thousands of lives worldwide. Justine Murray is at Mangatawa Marae with Maybelle McLeod and Erin Gardiner to reflect upon that time, and Professor Parry Guilford discusses those first formative years.