Research Professor
Email chris.pemberton@otago.ac.nz
Christchurch Heart Institute
Department of Medicine
University of Otago, Christchurch
PO Box 4345
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand
Current roles
- Director, Translational Biodiscovery Laboratory, Christchurch Heart Institute
- Named Investigator on the current Christchurch Heart Institute HRC Programme grant.
- Principal Investigator on HRC, MBIE and WADA funded signal peptide projects
- Research Professor, Department of Medicine
Research interests
- Novel protein/peptide biomarker identification and measurement
- Cardioendocrine signalling in the circulation and heart tissue
- Ex vivo study of novel cardiovascular diagnostic and therapeutic agents
- Commercialisation of biomedical technologies
Awards and professional memberships
- 2012- Research Commercialisation – Strategic and Implementation Committee, Division of Health Sciences.
- 2012- Corresponding Member, Canterbury, NZ Society of Endocrinology
- 2011 Health Research Council of New Zealand Liley Medal
- 2011- European Society for Cardiology, Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart
- 2010- American Association of Clinical Chemistry
- 2007-11 Health Research Council of New Zealand Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship
- 2006-2009 Treasurer, Executive Committee Member, NZ Society of Endocrinology