UniServices and the University of Auckland partner with an American drug development company to launch SapVax, a biotech start-up which develops novel cancer vaccines

The University of Auckland is ranked #1 in New Zealand and Australia and #27 out of 75 in the inaugural Reuters Top 75: Asia's Most Innovative Universities rankings

Artificial Intelligence start-up company Soul Machines attracts US$ 7.5 million from Hong Kong based VC firm Horizon Ventures

The University of Auckland Innovation Institute China is established

Spin-out company Engender Technologies commercialises technology to improve sorting of sperm by sex for the dairy industry

Maurice Wilkins Centre, hosted by the University of Auckland, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health sign a research commercialisation agreement and form a Joint Centre for Biomedicine

MIT Skoltech Initiative University Innovation Ecosystem Benchmark Report identifies the University of Auckland as one of the world's top five "emerging leaders in entrepreneurship" expected to become a major international innovation powerhouse in the decades ahead

Research collaboration agreement is signed between UniServices and food company Yashili to conduct strategic industry research

Return On Science is announced as the latest strategic partner for the Asia IP Exchange (AsiaIPEX), the region's largest free online platform for international intellectual property trading

SPARX, a computer programme for adolescent depression, wins an international digital award form UNESCO's Netexplo in Paris

Samsung invests in wireless charging start-up PowerbyProxi

IPT, the technology which allows electric cars to be charged wirelessly, hits the streets of London as part of an electric car trial

ACSRC cancer drug PR610 goes to clinical trial in the United States and New Zealand

Interactive simulations including a 'live' computer-generated baby driven by neurobehavioural models are developed at Dr. Sagar's new Laboratory for Animate Technologies

Auckland Bioengineering Institute develops electronic solution for artificial muscles made of stretchy rubber that can be made into sensors, power generators and actuators

HaloIPT, a start-up company focused on IPT technology for electric vehicles is sold to Qualcomm Inc.

A world first clinical trial of 35 healthcare robots together with a Korean university commences

Spin-out company Pathway Therapeutic raises AU$10 million of venture capital funding

Anti-cancer drug DMXAA enters Phase III clinical trials and is licensed to Novartis for NZ$890 million

The international consortium (UK, Singapore, NZ) EpiGen is launched, applying the science of neonatal nutrition to infant food development

Spin-out company Proacta raises more than NZ$52 million to develop unique anti-cancer technology

Spin-out company Neuren Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical which develops therapies for brain injury and neurodegeneration, is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange

The Liggins Institute, a world leading centre for translational research on fetal and child health, is officially opened by her Majesty Queen Elizabeth

A world leading Light Metals Research Centre is launched

The Auckland Bioengineering Institute, a cross-faculty research centre focusing on the application of mathematical and engineering sciences to biology and human physiology, is launched

UniServices delivers a NZ$30 million global clinical stroke trial for the World Health Organisation, Servier and International Society of Hypertension

Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre (ACSRC) enters two multimillion dollar contracts with the US National Cancer Institute

Wireless charging technology is licensed to Daifuku for applications in clean room factory automation

Auckland UniServices Ltd is incorporated

Professors John Boys and Grant Covic pioneer wireless inductive power transfer technology (IPT). They are the first in the world to make power jump efficiently across air from one object to another by intersecting two magnetic fields

Auckland University College is opened in May