{{Short description|New Zealand neonatologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=October 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = Dame | name = Jane Harding | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|DNZM|FRACP|FRSNZ|size=100%}} {{post-nominals|country=AUS|FRACP|size=100%}} | image = Jane Harding wins Rutherford Medal at 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa (cropped).jpg | caption = At 2019 Research Honours Aotearoa | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1955}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | spouse = | partner = | relatives = | awards = | website = | fields = Neonatology | workplaces = University of Auckland | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = {{Plainlist| * University of Auckland * University of Oxford * University of California, San Francisco }} | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = <!--(or | doctoral_advisors = )--> | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = }} '''Dame Jane Elizabeth Harding''' (born 1955) is a New Zealand academic new-born intensive case specialist (neonatologist). She was awarded the Rutherford Medal in 2019. Harding has been the president of the New Zealand national academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, since July 2024.
==Education and career== Harding studied at the University of Auckland, graduating in 1978, and in 1982 obtained a DPhil in foetal physiology from the University of Oxford.<ref name="HoMBRG">{{cite Q|Q29581694}}</ref> She returned to in New Zealand for paediatric training then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.<ref name="HoMBRG" /> Following that, she worked at the University of Auckland's faculty of Medicine from 1989, becoming Professor of Neonatology in 1997.<ref name="HoMBRG" /> She is a researcher in the Liggins Institute at the University of Auckland.<ref name="HoMBRG" />
==Honours and awards== Harding was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/who-we-are/our-people/our-fellows/all-fellows/g-i/ |title=List of all Fellows with surnames G–I |publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref> In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, she was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to paediatrics.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-and-golden-jubilee-honours-list-2002 |title=Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee honours list 2002 |date=3 June 2002 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=26 September 2019}}</ref> She was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand's Beaven Medal in 2016.<ref name="HRCNZ1">{{cite web|title=Low blood sugar treatment for babies earns researcher top medal|url=http://hrc.govt.nz/news-and-media/media/low-blood-sugar-treatment-babies-earns-researcher-top-medal|publisher=Health Research Council of New Zealand|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411190626/http://hrc.govt.nz/news-and-media/media/low-blood-sugar-treatment-babies-earns-researcher-top-medal|archive-date=2017-04-11|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2017, Harding was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating the contributions of women to knowledge in New Zealand.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Jane Harding|url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/150th-anniversary/150-women-in-150-words/1968-2017/jane-harding/|access-date=2021-05-10|website=Royal Society Te Apārangi}}</ref>
In 2019, Harding received the Rutherford Medal, New Zealand's highest science honour, from the Royal Society of New Zealand.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/medals-and-awards/research-honours/2019-research-honours/2019-rutherford-medal-better-lifelong-outcomes-for-mothers-and-babies/ |title=2019 Rutherford Medal: Better lifelong outcomes for mothers and babies |date=17 October 2019 |publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=18 October 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ourchangingworld/audio/2018717817/top-award-for-making-a-difference-in-babies-lives|title = Top award for making a difference in babies' lives| website=Radio New Zealand |date = 15 October 2019}}</ref> Also in 2019, Harding received the Supreme Award at the New Zealand Women of Influence Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-10-24|title=2019 Women of Influence Supreme winner medical pioneer Jane Harding|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116877470/2019-women-of-influence-supreme-winner-medical-pioneer-jane-harding|access-date=2020-12-14|website=Stuff|language=en}}</ref> In September 2023, New Zealand's national academy of sciences, the Royal Society Te Apārangi, announced she would be the Society's next president, beginning July 2024.<ref name="Royal Society 2023 news">{{cite web |title=Neonatologist Dame Jane Harding to be next President of Royal Society Te Apārangi |url=https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/neonatologist-dame-jane-harding-to-be-next-president-of-royal-society-te-aparangi/ |website=Royal Society Te Apārangi |publisher=Royal Society Te Apārangi |access-date=8 September 2023}}</ref>
In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Harding was promoted to Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to neonatology and perinatology.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2020 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2020 |date=1 June 2020 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |access-date=1 June 2020}}</ref>
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== External links == * {{Official website|https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/j-harding}} * {{History of Modern Biomedicine Research Group ID}}
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