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Te Ātiawa o Te Waka-a-Māui
Kaiāwhina Māori, Food Science
Programme Director, Agricultural Innovation

Professor

PhD (Otago), BPharm(Hons) (Otago)		Craig Bunt 2022 image

Contact

Tel+64 3 479 8365
Emailcraig.bunt@otago.ac.nz
Location Archway West G04

About

Dr Craig Bunt is the Inaugural Professor of Agricultural Innovation, University of Otago, New Zealand. In 1995 he completed his PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Otago. After a period as a Research Officer with InterAg, a veterinary pharmaceutical company, he became a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutics at the University of Auckland, and following this a Senior Research Scientist at AgResearch.

Craig's research focuses on bioactive delivery, and he is an author on over 120 research publications and 16 patents (6 granted in the USA). Craig has been awarded many honours and distinctions including an OECD fellowship, The Chiasma, Uniservices and Ideas Challenge prizes of the Spark Ideas Entrepreneurship Challenge, the Waikato Agribusiness Innovation Awards Supreme Winner and the Controlled Release Society's Outstanding Veterinary Paper.

Research

Craig has a wide range of formulations experience over many years, clustered around three key areas; Veterinary Pharmaceutics, Agriculture, and Nutraceuticals, currently with a strong focus on electro-spinning/spraying and 3D printing. He leads the Ag/Vet Controlled Release lab, which researches agri and veterinary controlled release formulations.

Ag/Vet Controlled Release lab

Craig is also a member of Food Waste Innovation, a University of Otago Research Theme which measures food waste, develops reduction strategies, applies innovative technology, and works to modify producer and consumer behaviour.

Food Waste Innovation

For more information about agriculture at the University of Otago, visit the Agriculture at Otago Research Theme website:

Agriculture at Otago

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Teaching

Publications

Fatima, T., Bunt, C., Agyei, D., Kebede, B., Leus, M., & Morris, S. (2023). Characterisation of volatile compounds in commercially available Horopito and Kawakawa teas. Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute of Food Science & Technology (NZIFST) Conference: Food in a Changing World. S05. Retrieved from https://nzifst.org.nz

Agyei, D., Bunt, C., & Kebede, B. (2023, August). In silico tools for predicting bioactive properties of compounds from indigenous New Zealand flora. Verbal presentation at the Kai mō Aotearoa Food Science Meeting [Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Satellite], Queenstown, New Zealand.

Bunt, C., Griffin, F., Kawharu, M., Bond, S., & Telfer, I. (2023, June). Adaptation. Panel discussion at the Science-based Policy School for Climate Change, [Hybrid].

Yao, X., Bunt, C., Liu, M., Quek, S.-Y., Shaw, J., Cornish, J., & Wen, J. (2023). Enhanced cellular uptake and transport of bovine lactoferrin using pectin- and chitosan-modified solid lipid nanoparticles. Pharmaceutics, 15, 2168. doi: 10.3390/pharmaceutics15082168

Bunt, C. (2023, July). Pharm to farm: Interdisciplinary agricultural innovation. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture].

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