Dr Kimiora Henare

Kimiora is a cancer biologist specialising (at the benchtop) in the tumour microenvironment and tumour immunology. Alongside his lab-based biomedical research, Kimiora worked with the NETwork! Project to develop a roadmap for Māori engagement for clinical cancer genomics which has served as a scaffold for several other cancer genomics projects, including the Rakeiora project and MoST-NZ. Kimiora was recently awarded a 2024 Health Research Council (HRC) Māori Health Research Emerging Leadership Fellowship titled: A Pathway to the Molecular Tumour Board, where he will be focusing on addressing potential workforce challenges related to the delivery of precision oncology in Aotearoa. In addition to his biomedical research expertise, Kimiora teaches and advises on Responsiveness to Māori in health research for the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (FMHS) at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, holds advisory and governance roles for clinical and biomedical research. Kimiora also serves as the Pae Rangahau lead for Hei Āhuru Mōwai (Māori Cancer Leadership Aotearoa), as a co-convenor of SING-Aotearoa, and on the Executive committee for the New Zealand Society for Oncology (NZSO).