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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...
Leukaemia and Blood Cancer Research Unit high impact paper

Leukaemia and Blood Cancer Research Unit high impact paper

Rhea Desai, Sarvenaz Taghavi, Jessica Chase, Martin Chopra, Jenny Chien, Peter Browett, Purvi Kakadia and Stefan Bohlander from the Leukaemia and Blood Cancer Research Unit published a paper in the journal ‘Leukemia’, a Nature publishing group journal and the #2...
Postgraduate success

Postgraduate success

From left: Kar Yan Soh and Sam Blanchett Congratulations Kar Yan Soh and Sam Blanchett who successfully defended their theses. Kar Yan Soh had her oral PhD examination last month. Her thesis is entitled ‘Functional Analysis of Streptococcal Virulence Factors using a...