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  • VUW and IRL bring business to science

    Scholarships
    26 April, 2010

    IRL has now established PhD scholarships at Victoria University which will help ensure that the next generation of scientists can commercialise their research and help lift New Zealand’s economic performance and prosperity.

  • IRL and Epichem Pty Ltd combine strengths in Australasian alliance

    Epichem
    23 March, 2010

    Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) and Epichem Pty Ltd today announced the launch of a strategic alliance designed to provide clients with continuous and seamless services from drug discovery to cGMP production.

  • IRL scientists scoop PM’s Science Prize

    9 March, 2010

    Two of New Zealand’s pre-eminent scientists, whose work enabled the creation of a new, high-value industry for New Zealand, were today jointly awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Science Prize.

  • IRL Board Chair praises CRI Taskforce findings

    CRI Taskforce Report
    4 March, 2010

    IRL Board Chair Keith McConnell welcomed the findings of the CRI[?] Taskforce which were released publicly today.

  • NZ leads global rollout of 'revolutionary' HTS tech

    ISIS
    5 February, 2010

    Boosting the global uptake of high temperature superconductors, a revolutionary technology transforming a wide range of industries, is the goal of an influential line-up of international industrial heavyweights gathering in Wellington next week.

  • New discovery in global war on gout

    Gout
    14 January, 2010

    A promising new gout treatment co-discovered by Lower Hutt’s Industrial Research Ltd (IRL) has taken an important step towards the world’s largest pharmaceuticals market.

  • Rare honour for Antarctic researcher

    Tim Haskell
    7 December, 2009

    IRL senior scientist Dr Tim Haskell has joined an elite group of Antarctic explorers and scientists by having a geographic feature in the region named after him.

  • IRL scientist scoops chemistry award for supercritical extraction

    Owen Catchpole
    2 December, 2009

    IRL Group Manager, Integrated Bioactive Technologies, Dr Owen Catchpole has won the New Zealand Institute of Chemistry Fonterra Prize for Industrial and Applied Chemistry.

  • Wellingtonian of the Year Award for world-leading IRL scientist

    Bob Buckley
    27 November, 2009

    World-leading physicist and IRL  Group Manager, HTS[?] Conductors and Devices, Dr Bob Buckley last night won Wellingtonian of the Year in the Science & Technology category.

  • Royal recognition for IRL engineer

    Paul Harris
    19 November, 2009

    IRL Research Engineer Paul Harris was last night awarded the RJ Scott medal for his significant contributions to the development and application of electronic devices in New Zealand.