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Professor Margreet Vissers

Job title
Research Professor, Associate Dean (Research)
Telephone
+64 3 364 1524
Mobile
+64 27 228 2164
Email
margreet.vissers@otago.ac.nz
Section
Dean's Department (UOC)
Department
Pathology and Biomedical Science Dept, Dean's Department (UOC)
School
University of Otago, Christchurch
Division
Division of Health Sciences
Campus
Christchurch

Social Media

Website/Blog
https://www.otago.ac.nz/free-radical/staff/margreet-vissers.html

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Expertise

Health and Medicine

Cancer - Treatment
  • Nutrition and Cancer treatment
  • Vitamin C and cancer
  • Tumour hypoxia and responsiveness to treatment
  • Breast cancer, colon cancer
  • Acute myeloid leukemia
  • Glioblastoma
Infectious Diseases
  • White blood cell function
  • Pneumonia and immunity
  • Generation of bleach by white blood cells
  • Tissue injury and inflammation
  • Chronic lung injury following pneumonia
Health and Medicine - General/Other
  • Oxidative stress
  • Antioxidants and nutrition
  • Vitamin C for immune function
  • Vitamin C in infectious diseases
  • Vitamin C in sepsis and acute respiratory illness

Science and Technology

Food Science
  • Vitamin C and nutrition
  • Vitamin C and vitality
  • Health benefits of kiwifruit
  • Berryfuit polyphenols
  • Antioxidants and nutrition