by nall486 | Jul 2, 2018 | SMS, SMS - this issue
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...
by nall486 | Jul 2, 2018 | SMS, SMS - this issue
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...
by nall486 | Jul 2, 2018 | SMS, SMS - this issue
Congratulations David Finlay who have recently defended his thesis. The thesis is titled ‘Factors Influencing the Specificity and Bias of CB1 Cannabinoid Receptor Signalling’. He is supervised by Professor Michelle Glass and co-supervised by Dr Natasha Grimsey,...
by nall486 | Jul 2, 2018 | SMS, SMS - this issue
Congratulations to Anuj Bhargava on winning the 2018 Butland Award for Innovation in Teaching. As a Professional Teaching Fellow in the Department of Physiology Anuj is deeply involved in teaching in undergraduate physiology, medical and pharmacy courses. Over his...
by nall486 | Jun 13, 2018 | SMS, SMS - this issue
Associate Professor Bronwen Connor has become a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the treatment of neurological disorders. A pharmacologist in the School of Medical Sciences, department of Pharmacology and head of the Neural Reprogramming and...
by nall486 | Jun 11, 2018 | SMS, SMS - this issue
Cancer Society of New Zealand/CSNZ Research Grants Programme Francis Hunter, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre Use of CRISPR screens to discover genetic vulnerabilities in NRAS-driven melanoma $221,527 University of Otago/BRNZ Hinemoa Elder, School of...
