CMDT Early-Career Researcher Award for Gretel Major
Monday 1 August 2022
A CMDT Early-Career Researcher Award of Gretel Major suggests she is a young researcher to watch.
Monday 1 August 2022
A CMDT Early-Career Researcher Award of Gretel Major suggests she is a young researcher to watch.
Tuesday 8 March 2022
Associate Professor Khoon Lim, from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine, has been awarded the European Society for Biomaterials' coveted Jean Leray Award for 2022
Monday 7 February 2022
The CReaTE research group welcomes the acquisition of a RegenHU bioprinting system – the first of its kind installed in Australasia.
Thursday 11 November 2021
An Otago researcher is one step closer to 3D-bioprinting functioning organs in a laboratory after being awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
Thursday 11 November 2021
Dr Khoon Lim can’t quite believe that he has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship.
Wednesday 13 October 2021
Axel Norberg shines at the International Conference on Biofabrication with a winning oral presentation about his PhD research.
Monday 4 October 2021
Otago researcher Dr Xiaolin (Steven) Cui wins the 2021 WFIRM Young Investigator Award from the International Society of Biofabrication.
Thursday 30 September 2021
Otago researcher Dr Xiaolin (Steven) Cui wins $135,000 project funding and a research fellowship from the Heart Foundation of New Zealand ($255,000), supporting his research into a new way of regenerating damaged heart tissue using ‘living drugs’.
Monday 30 August 2021
Otago researcher joins a projected 30 top-tier researchers at the University of Oregon’s new research campus, the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact (Knight Campus). Dr Gabriella Lindberg will lead her own laboratory developing biofabricated 3D-models and organoids to bridge the gap between engineered and native tissues.
Wednesday 11 August 2021
Laura Veenendaal, PhD candidate, wins the Best Student Poster Award offered by the Health Research Society of Canterbury.
Thursday 8 July 2021
Dr Khoon Lim is the recipient of the ABSTE Emerging Investigator Award for 2021.
Wednesday 23 June 2021
MBIE supports talented Early Career Researcher with the award of its Science Whitinga Fellowship.
Wednesday 2 June 2021
Australasian society honours Otago researcher, Dr Khoon Lim, with Emerging Investigator Award.
Monday 31 May 2021
Better outcomes for women suffering from New Zealand’s most common gynaecological cancer and a bioactive toothpaste that will mean fewer visits to the dentist are just two University of Otago projects funded by the Health Research Council this week.
Friday 28 May 2021
Health Research Council of New Zealand’s Explorer Grant win for Dr Gabriella Lindberg. Personalised 3D tissue models are to be researched with the aim of reducing health inequities in cartilage therapies.
Tuesday 4 May 2021
The video of Professor Tim Woodfield's Inaugural Professorial Lecture is now available.
Tuesday 27 April 2021
Otago’s Health Sciences Division awards Dr Gabriella Lindberg a postdoctoral fellowship. Research into the integration of cartilage bioimplants with patient’s own tissues.
Monday 19 April 2021
Top research honour awarded to Professor Tim Woodfield for his research leadership in the University of Otago Christchurch campus.
Tuesday 9 March 2021
Tim Woodfield delivers his inaugural lecture as a newly appointed professor, Wednesday 7 April, 5.50pm, Rolleston Lecture Theatre. This is a FREE event open to the public, but registration is required.
Monday 8 March 2021
The University of Otago’s Dr Khoon Lim and Mr Jeremy Simcock speak on TV’s NewsHub about their innovative fat grafting research, promising another option for reconstructive plastic surgery. Their research proposal recently won a Translational Research Grant and $50,000 funding from the University.
Tuesday 2 March 2021
The International Union Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering honours University of Otago researcher Professor Tim Woodfield.
Monday 18 January 2021
Te Tahau Rangahau Hauratanga Lottery Health Research win secures a new rheometer for the University of Otago’s Christchurch campus.
Monday 14 December 2020
The winning team in this year’s University of Otago Translational Research Grant (TRG) competition has members based in Christchurch and Dunedin.