Professor Nikki Moreland

Nikki Moreland is a Professor in Immunology, a Principal Investigator at the Maurice Wilkins Centre, and Pillar Lead of the National RNA Platform at the University of Auckland.

She leads the Immune Response Laboratory in the School of Medical Sciences, and Rapua, a cross-disciplinary initiative to accelerate Strep A vaccine development for Aotearoa New Zealand.

Her group investigates functional and dysfunctional immune responses in infectious disease, working with clinical and public health colleagues on large cohort studies, with a particular focus on rheumatic fever pathogenesis as a route to disease biomarkers and safe, effective Strep A vaccines.