 Aunga equniai nohwag wedi zenglian dain zessa aunga i nama ballwain te iakwai. Ucau organi i nama i Wikia New Zealand. Cadst brillo, ments, ira ni cognile piawis aunga i warnu. Ia gudu priamara nina. Ia New Zealand, ii ngama i nama i bladau, aunga i rai. Iau rai i rugby, iai i soca, ia ngama i — Ia gudu i gandzi piawis aniziaumpi, ia New Zealand idu i ka direnau i woi. o'r skol, o'r girl's school, usually, a' they stream the classes and they give you a whole lot of tests and I managed to get in the class that seemed to be at the top. We were a very baddy Behaviour class, I'm afraid, Microbiology and Biochemistry and Physiology and the like. A' did Anthropology as well, it was quite interesting. A' the two classes I really didn't like, the two lecturers that were the worst were Microbiology and Biochemistry, so naturally in year two I took those two courses. I thought Microbiology was fascinating, small organisms could take over enormous organisms and kill them and control them and I thought that was fascinating. So that was great, I did that in the second year and in that second year I also won the Lions New Zealand Youth of the Year. So I got sent to America for two, three months and I had someone take notes for me who was very good at taking notes. So I came back and I passed with flying colours, I think because the person who took the notes was so good at taking notes, but anyway, passed really well and eventually got through my bachelor's degree and what you can then do is you can do an honours degree, one year of research and that was great. I mean it was scary because you're going into the lab and you're doing something no-one else in the world is going to do and you don't know what the answer is, a beautiful thing is there's no wrong answer. So that was quite an inspirational year for you, it was really fantastic and so I worked in the fourth year of university, I worked in a lab that worked on viruses that attacked bacteria and it was just really classic microbiology. But it was inspired to Toronto and the guy who we went to work for, we were working on how HIV got around the immune system. So this is a really important problem, you know, HIV attacks the immune system and you know, how does it actually do this? And if we could sort of unlock that code, could we now release the immune system for us? We had this guy in Fraser Metis at the old Brisbane airport, which was a shed I think in those days, and we started working at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. What we weren't to know at the time was that Ian had been working on a vaccine with his colleague Jan Zoo and while I had doubled at the side in terms of experience and I went on a few trips with Ian to the companies that were interested in pushing the vaccine, most of the work had been done at that stage and what occurred in the end was, you know, the story goes that Gardasil was licensed to Merck and that became the first cervical cancer vaccine and it was an incredibly interesting experience seeing something go from bench to bedside. We're still working, so the vaccine is essentially going to stop people getting cancer because they haven't yet been infected with the virus. Now, that's going to take a long, long time to come through, so we still have a whole pool of females and now males who are on the road to cancer caused by this virus. So we need a therapeutic product or therapy for those already on that. So we've been working on that now for quite some time. We've got some repromising drugs that we think will cure people of both cervical cancer but also head and neck cancer so I've watched about a third of it caused by papillomavirus and so there are other sorts of cancers we can cure. Of course, eventually the vaccine will wipe those out, hopefully, as long as everyone gets vaccinated. So we've been interested in that. I've also been interested in some of the other causes of cancer, viral causes of cancer. So we've worked on myrchal cell or working on myrchal cell carcinoma which is the deadliest skin cancer. It's quite rare but it's more deadly than melanoma. It's caused by virus. So we're interested in how that works and it's a great job. Come to work every day. I don't know what my students are going to bring to me but it's fantastic to see when discoveries are made how excited they are.