Karere me kā mahi
Thursday 8 September 2022
The New Zealand Society of Endocrinology awarded its annual prizes for students and emerging researchers at Queenstown Research Week and this year both went to the Centre for Neuroendocrinology.
Monday 22 August 2022
Dr Joe Yip is looking forward to giving the award lecture at Queenstown Research Week for a prize he won last year.
Thursday 21 July 2022
It started with a serendipitous discovery that a population of dopamine neurons in the hypothalamus are involved in appetite control. Now Dr Joe Yip has been awarded a small grant by the Neurological Foundation to take this research further.
Monday 4 July 2022
The bodies (and minds) of women undergo significant changes during pregnancy, and some of these changes can be more desirable than others. Researchers at the Centre for Neuroendocrinology have received funding to study the underlying changes in mother’s brains, when their appetite and breathing change during pregnancy and what may go wrong if they develop mood disorders after giving birth.
Tuesday 28 June 2022
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common forms of infertility. Dr Caroline Decourt has found a possible cause for the development of the disorder and won the Research Staff Speaker Prize at the recent Otago Medical School Research Society meeting.
Friday 3 June 2022
Associate Professor Alex Tups has received funding to find the link between impaired wound healing in obese or diabetic patients and a hormone involved in metabolic disease.
Thursday 26 May 2022
A paper in the prestigious journal PNAS on how the hormone prolactin regulates maternal behaviour by acting on specific parts of the brain has scored a publication award for postdoc Dr Teodora Georgescu.
