Overview
The School of Biomedical Sciences is part of the University of Otago Medical School, which also comprises the Dunedin School of Medicine and clinical schools in Christchurch and Wellington.
The Otago Medical School is itself part of the Division of Health Sciences, one of four academic divisions at the University of Otago:
- University of Otago
- Division of Commerce (Otago Business School)
- Division of Health Sciences
- Division of Humanities
- Division of Sciences
Departments
The School of Biomedical Sciences is made up of five departments:
Teaching programmes
In addition to the Bachelor of Science (BSc) majors offered by each of our departments, the School of Biomedical Sciences makes a significant contribution to two interdisciplinary BSc majors:
The Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences (BBiomedSc) programme offers six different majors, and is managed by the School of Biomedical Sciences.
Research centres and units
- Ag@Otago
- Allan Wilson@Otago
- Asia-Pacific Bicultural Health
- Basal Ganglia Research
- Bioinformatics
- Biological Anthropology Research Group
- Brain Health Research Centre
- Centre for Confocal Microscopy
- Centre for Neuroendocrinology
- Centre for Protein Research
- Centre for Translational Cancer Research
- CARE: Collaboration of Ageing Research Excellence
- Disease Research Laboratory
- Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research
- Genetics Otago
- Microbiome Otago
- Molecular Embryology Group
- Otago Centre for Electron Microscopy
- Otago Genomics and Bioinformatics Facility
- Otago Global Health Institute
- Otago Medical Research Foundation
- One Health Aotearoa
- Pain@Otago
- Polar Environment Research Centre
- Virus Research Unit
- Webster Centre for Infectious Diseases
