Photo / SuppliedShe also undertook research in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), recent findings being drawn from her Missouri University HIV programme in Kinshasa, DRC. Identifying this group of "elite controllers" of HIV infection raised hopes of an eventual cure, by providing new pathways for further research into vaccines and treatments for HIV. Every new HIV discovery was "another piece in the evolutionary jigsaw puzzle". Otago University was a "superb" place to undertake research and she had been "enormously fortunate" to have received the Otago University grounding in zoology/parasitology/immunology. McArthur still has friends and colleagues at Otago University and usually comes back to Dunedin each year to visit them.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 07, 2021 18:41 UTC