Rebecca McKenzie

Project Leader RNA Platform at Malaghan Institute

Speaker

Dr Rebecca McKenzie is project and team lead of the NZ RNA platform production facility at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research. Trained as a molecular biologist at the University of Otago, she completed her PhD at Delft University of Technology's Department of Bionanoscience, developing imaging and molecular tools to characterise CRISPR-Cas bacterial immune systems. She then returned to Aotearoa as a postdoctoral researcher with the Vaccine Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand, contributing to COVID-19 vaccine research. Rebecca now leads RNA/LNP production for researchers nationally and internationally, driving the platform's growth and advancing RNA technologies across human health and agriculture.