Warren Tate

Warren Perry Tate CNZM (born 1945 or 1946) is a New Zealand biochemist and professor of biochemistry at the University of Otago.

[1] Born in 1945 or 1946, Tate grew up in Petone and was educated at Hutt Valley High School and Victoria University of Wellington.

[3] In 2016, Tate and other researchers at the University of Otago discovered a promising new marker among a small number of molecules of microRNA.

This means that Alzheimer's could be diagnosed by a simple blood test in future.

[4] In 2013, Warren Tate and PhD student Angus Mackay received funding from the Lottery Health Research grants which uplifted their hopes of finding a diagnostic blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome, also known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, and once called Tapanui flu.