Congratulations to our outstanding winners who received prizes at HealtheX!
The winners, their project titles, schools or departments, and primary supervisors are listed below. You can also read the full abstracts on https://healthex.auckland.ac.nz/.
Doctoral Oral Awards
FMHS PGSA Doctoral Oral Presentation Third Runner Up Award $300
Courtney Brighouse – Validation of Methods Assessing Glymphatic Function (Department of Physiology; Supervisor: Dr Tonja Emans)
Non-Doctoral Oral Awards
FMHS Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation First Runner Up Award $700
Anna Shaw – Macrophage Identity Crisis: Fluorescent Labelling to Visualise Cancer-Immune Interactions (ACSRC; Supervisor: Dr Emma Nolan)
FMHS Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Second Runner Up Award $500
Ianah Bitac – Developing a novel mucosal adjuvant based on pilus proteins from Group A Streptococcus (Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology; Supervisor: Dr Catherine Tsai)
Poster Presentation Awards
AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award $1000 and a $2500 AMRF Travel Grant
Brooke Hawker – Investigating the use of lysolecithin to model demyelination in sagittal rat brain organotypic slice cultures (Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology; Supervisor: Dr Amy McCaughey-Chapman)
FMHS Poster Presentation First Runner Up Award $700
Lara Molly – Structure activity relationship studies for allosteric inhibitors targeting the oncogenic H1047R mutation in PI3Kα (Department of Pharmacology; Supervisor: Associate Professor Jack Flanagan)
FMHS Poster Presentation Second Runner Up Award $500
Lucy Robinson – Sex/gender differences in canonical and non-canonical WNT signalling in human osteoarthritic chondrocytes (Department of Pharmacology; Supervisor: Dr Raewyn Poulsen)
3-Minute Elevator Pitch Awards
Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust Best Elevator Pitch Presentation Award $1000
Jessica Woodhams – Expanding the Diagnostic Toolbox for Endometrial Cancer (Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology; Supervisor: Dr Sandra Fitzgerald)
Additional Awards
FMHS Pacific Health Research Award $500
Rosanna Roberts-Nonu – The Impact of Hypertension and Diet on Carotid Body Cellular Organization (Department of Physiology; Supervisor: Dr Audrys Pauza)
FMHS PGSA Excellent Abstract Award $200
Jayd Dayaram – Uncovering Novel and Direct Evidence-Based Therapies for Diabetic Heart Disease (Department of Physiology; Supervisor: Associate Professor Kimberley Mellor)
FMHS PGSA Excellent Abstract Award $200
Anna Shaw – Macrophage Identity Crisis: Fluorescent Labelling to Visualise Cancer-Immune Interactions (ACSRC; Supervisor: Dr Emma Nolan)
FMHS PGSA Excellent Abstract Award $200
Ben Bristow – Multimodal MRI Reveals Brain Structural Deficits and Executive Dysfunction in Early Methamphetamine Abstinence (Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging; Supervisor: Associate Professor Miriam Scadeng)
FMHS PGSA Elevator Pitch People’s Choice Award $300
Andrew Fox-Lewis – Capturing the complete clinical spectrum of severe acute Group A Streptococcus disease in Auckland (Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology; Supervisor: Associate Professor Rachel Webb)