06 Nov 2025
Re-established Research Centre funding welcome in ‘grim’ environment
Research centres are celebrating securing money from the recent Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka University of Otago Research Centre...
22 Oct 2025
Otago student first New Zealander to win prestigious cardiac award
A Christchurch medical student and PhD candidate has won a prestigious award at the recent Cardiac Society of Australia...
29 Sep 2025
Christchurch Heart Institute researchers shine in Heart Foundation Grants
“Game-changing” University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka research projects focussed on novel scanning, tests and bioma...
13 Jun 2025
Memoir celebrates career of dedication to endocrinology
When Emeritus Professor Eric Espiner arrived at Christchurch Hospital as a fresh-faced University of Otago medical gradu...
12 Mar 2025
UOC hosts Heart Foundation fundraising breakfast
The University of Otago, Christchurch campus’s reputation as a “centre of excellence” for heart research made it a fitti...
03 Feb 2022
Professor Vicky Cameron – Chasing Genes and Climbing Mountains
Professor Vicky Cameron has devoted her distinguished University of Otago career to scientific discovery, or, in her own...
12 Aug 2021
COVID-19 antibodies and heart health, focus of new study
Christchurch researchers are aiming to get a handle on the number of Kiwis exposed to COVID-19 and how long antibodies t...
08 Jul 2021
Raising awareness of Māori heart health
The Christchurch Heart Institute (CHI), Rangahau Manawa o Ōtautahi, is working alongside the Māori community to raise aw...
31 May 2021
Otago projects receive $1.64m Health Research Council funding
Better outcomes for women suffering from New Zealand’s most common gynaecological cancer and a bioactive toothpaste that...
12 Mar 2021
Keeping on track
Professor Vicky Cameron ran the Buller Half Marathon recently, coming second in the 65+ age group.
12 Mar 2021
A gut response
Working in a lab to help further research into the relationship between the microbiome and cardiovascular disease, may n...
12 Mar 2021
Medical student’s summer of research
Fergus Allan was going to be an accountant when he left Palmerston North Boys High.
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