Dunedin multidisciplinary health and development research unit director Prof Richie Poulton was presented the prize by PM Bill English. PHOTO PETER MCINTOSHA Dunedin study has been awarded a half million-dollar prize for research which has both saved and changed lives throughout the globe. Researchers from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit (DMHDRU), which has been running for 45 years, won the 2016 Prime Minister’s Science Prize. The "Dunedin Study" researchers were awarded $500,000, New Zealand's most valuable science prize, for their longitudinal study and assessment of 1037 children born at Queen Mary Maternity Hospital in 1972-73. The prize was presented to unit director Professor Richie Poulton by Prime Minister Bill English in Wellington this afternoon.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 21, 2017 03:33 UTC