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Contact Details

Phone
+64 4 918 5610
Email
kathryn.hally@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Wellington)
Qualifications
BBMedSc PhD
Research summary
Characterising inflammation in acute myocardial infarction

Research

I completed both my undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Biomedical Science at Victoria University of Wellington. I finished my PhD in 2018 and moved to The University of Otago, Wellington, to take up a Postdoctoral Fellow position within the Department of Surgery. My current research is focused on developing inflammation-based risk scores for predicting good myocardial repair following a myocardial infarction. I have extensive technical expertise in full-spectrum flow cytometry and utilize this skillset to interrogate circulating immune cell phenotype for biomarker discovery. If we are able to identify patients that experience bad cardiac repair post-infarction, we can begin to personalize their therapy and rehabilitation to ensure beneficial long-term cardiac health for these individuals.

I work as a part of the Wellington Cardiovascular Research Group, which is a collaborative effort between The University of Otago, Victoria University and Capital and Coast DHB. Combined, we have expertise in both basic science and in clinical practice and work together to ensure the translation of our work from the bench into the clinic.

Publications

Wallace, P. K., Jellison, E. R., Thornton, S., Kluepfel, K., Black, J., Beadnell, T. C., … Hally, K. E., … Rajwa, B. (2026). Cyt-geist: Current and future challenges in cytometry: Reports of the CYTO 2025 conference workshops. Cytometry Part A, 109(1), 5-41. doi: 10.1002/cytoa.70002 Journal - Research Other

Symonds, E. K. C., Schmidt, A. J., Brown, A. W., Currie, M. J., Herst, P. M., Hally, K. E., & Danielson, K. M. (2026). Development of a 3D in Vitro wound healing model to assess the effect of ADSC-EVs on vascularization. Tissue Engineering Part A, 32(9-10), 334-346. doi: 10.1177/19373341251383899 Journal - Research Article

Palmer, R., Pilkington, K. R., Moloney-Geany, K., Hally, K. E., & Hilligan, K. L. (2025). Spatially Resolved Immune Profiling of the Murine Lung Using In Vivo Labeling and Spectral Cytometry. Current Protocols, 5, e70276. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.70276 Journal - Research Other

Robichon, K., Taylor, J., Milner, I., Hally, K. E., & La Flamme, A. C. (2025). Monitoring treatment-associated receptor expression in multiple sclerosis using a newly developed panel for spectral flow cytometry. Cytometry Part A, 107(10), 668-682. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.24963 Journal - Research Article

Jones, C., La Flamme, A., Larsen, P., & Hally, K. (2024). CPHEN-017: Comprehensive phenotyping of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) on peripheral human neutrophils [Phenotype report]. Cytometry Part A, 105, 639-652. doi: 10.1002/cyto.a.24851 Journal - Research Article

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