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Staff News 2 – July 2018

Staff News 2 – July 2018

Congratulations to Dr Justin Dean on winning the ‘Hershey Conference Richard Traystman Young Investigator Award’ at the 11th Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury, held in the USA this year. This award celebrates success in science, as well as leadership...
Appointment – Assoc Prof Clare Wall

Appointment – Assoc Prof Clare Wall

Associate Professor Clare Wall has been appointed to the role of Academic Director of the School. She replaces Professor Michelle Glass who has taken up a new position as the Head of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Otago. As academic director Clare...
Staff News – July 2018

Staff News – July 2018

Congratulations to Dr Christopher Lear and Dr Guido Wassink on receiving a School of Medical Sciences Doctoral Publication Excellence Prize for the best paper published by a PhD student in 2017. Congratulations to the co-authors and supervisors. This award carries a...
Research Developments – July 2018

Research Developments – July 2018

Congratulations to Professor Peter Shepherd, Molecular Medicine and Pathology department who received the HRC grant of nearly $5 million for a 60-month study into understanding genetic risk factors for metabolic disease. The programme will focus on using genetics to...
High Impact Papers – July 2018

High Impact Papers – July 2018

Nishi Karunasinghe, Stefan Ambs, Alice Wang, Wei Tang, Shuotun Zhu, Tiffany, HDorsey, Megan Goudie, Jonathan G. Masters and Lynnette R. Ferguson published a paper entitled ‘Influence of lifestyle and genetic variants in the aldo-keto reductase 1C3 rs12529 polymorphism...