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Postgraduate success

Postgraduate success

Milena Samora a PhD student, was recently selected for a Research Recognition Award from the Neural Control and Autonomic Regulation section of the American Physiological Association. Melina is a Brazilian ‘sandwich’ PhD student supervised by A/Prof James Fisher in...
High impact papers

High impact papers

Professor Julian Paton and his team have published two Nature Communications papers over the last two months both of which have received a lot of media attention. The two papers are listed below with a short summary. Abu-Hassan K, Taylor JD, Morris PG, Donati E,...
Catwalk Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded

Catwalk Post-Doctoral Fellowship awarded

Dr Amy McCaughey-Chapman has been awarded a two-year post-doctoral fellowship by the Catwalk Foundation. Amy is a member of the Neural Reprogramming and Repair Group. She obtained her PhD in 2018 in the field of direct cell reprogramming and has continued her research...
Funding success for the Neural Reprogramming and Repair Group

Funding success for the Neural Reprogramming and Repair Group

Image of zsGreen labelled human striatal neurons generated by direct cell reprogramming examined 8 weeks after transplantation into a rat model of Huntington’s disease. Green cells = human striatal neurons; red cells = rat striatal neurons; blue cells = nuclear stain....

Message from Head of School

Kia ora koutou Reading through the accumulated items in the School Newsletter it is clearly evident that 2019 has been another successful year for the School of Medical Sciences. Our staff and students have excelled across the domains of research teaching and...