Monday 17 December 2018
A number of staff and students from the Centre for Free Radical Research traveled to Auckland to present at the Reactive Oxidants in Health and Disease – 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Free Radical Research Australasia last week.
Thursday 8 November 2018
University of Otago researchers are celebrating their most successful Marsden Fund round ever, securing $28.5 million (excluding GST) for 41 world-class research projects.
Wednesday 31 October 2018
Pathology and Biomedical Science researchers Associate Professor Anitra Carr and Dr Logan Walker gave lectures at parliament this week in an event organised by the University of Otago’s OZONE Group showcasing early career researchers.
Monday 27 August 2018
University of Otago scientist Dr Andrew Das has won the Roche Translational Cancer Research Fellowship to further his work as part of a research team investigating the role of epigenetics in leukaemia.
Wednesday 8 August 2018
A PhD candidate who is investigating the emotional responses of clinicians who deal with suicidal patients has won the PhD category of Otago’s 2018 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Tuesday 7 August 2018
PhD student Teagan Hoskin has given her PhD exit seminar on the oxidative post-translational modifications of calprotectin during inflammation at the UOC Research Seminar Series this week.
Thursday 19 July 2018
Centre for Free Radical Research student Chris Kaldor has won the Master’s category of the UOC heat of the 3 Minute Thesis Competition 2018.
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Members of the Centre for Free Radical Research have travelled to Canada to present at two conferences this month.
Thursday 14 June 2018
Associate Professor Anitra Carr has been interviewed by a number of media outlets, including Radio NZ, this week about the study she is leading to determine whether intravenous infusions of vitamin C could be a life-saving treatment for patients with sepsis.
Tuesday 12 June 2018
University of Otago, Christchurch researchers are teaming up with intensive care specialists to study whether intravenous infusions of vitamin C could be a life-saving treatment for patients with sepsis.
Monday 7 May 2018
Kate Vick presented her PhD exit seminar at the UOC Research Seminar Series in the Beaven Lecture Theatre this afternoon.
Monday 30 April 2018
The Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science has established a named, annual lecture in honour of Professor Christine Winterbourn from the Centre for Free Radical Research.
Monday 16 April 2018
With every breath we take, cells in our body make small amounts of hydrogen peroxide. In some conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease, too much hydrogen peroxide is made, causing widespread disruption to cells.
Monday 26 March 2018
Members of the Centre for Free Radical Research were recipients of University of Otago, Christchurch Value Awards at the 2018 Academic Welcome ceremony last week.
Thursday 1 March 2018
The three Otago departments which this week won awards for fostering postgraduate research culture share a common approach: they make their postgraduate students a priority.
Thursday 1 February 2018
Two Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science staff members have been promoted to Research Associate Professors from today.
