Dr Lisa Te Morenga, a member of the Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, and Research Fellow with the Department of Human Nutrition, has been awarded an 'Emerging Researcher First Grant' from the New Zealand Health Research Council (HRC).
Dr Te Morenga's project, Systematic review and meta-analyses on health effects of dietary carbohydrates, is one of nine HRC emerging researcher grants awarded this year, eight of which were won by researchers at the University of Otago.
Otago's up-and-coming researchers dominate funding round, Otago staff bulletin, May 14, 2015
Otago in 'stellar' HRC grant showing, ODT, May 15, 2015