Craniofacial research
Key personnel and collaborations

Academic and research staff

• Professor Mauro Farella
• Dr Joseph Antoun
• Florence Bennani
• Professor Jonathan Broadbent
• Professor Richard Cannon
• Associate Professor Nick Chandler
• Associate Professor Rohana De Silva
• Associate Professor Harsha De Silva
• Professor Warwick Duncan
• Associate Professor Manikandan Ekambaram
• Associate Professor Lyndie Foster Page (NZ Defence Force, Honorary Associate Professor at Otago)
• Dr Sophie Gray
• Winifred Harding
• Associate Professor Nick Heng
• Dr Hannah Jack
• Professor Karl Lyons
• Associate Professor Li Mei
• Dr Trudy Milne
• Dr Ajith Polonowita
• Dr Christopher Robertson
• Dr Benedict Seo
• Dr Suzan Stacknik
• Associate Professor Geoffrey Tompkins
• Professor Murray Thomson
• Professor Neil Waddell

Current and recent postgraduate students

DClinDent students

Gracie Nichols
Rachel Farrar
James Millar
Danielle Hodgkinson
Ghassan Idris
Simon Olliver
Wei Lin
Ana Low
Caleb Lawrence
Divya Ramanan
Fiona Firth
Will Sew Hoy
Austin Kang
Azza Al-Ani
Gareth Benic
Catherine Carleton
Yana Itskovich
Mohamad Al-Dujaili
Coreen Loke
Lydia Meredith

PhD students

Hisham Yasser
Sabarinath Prasad
Joseph Antoun
Erin Hutchinson
Andrew Quick

Interested in joining our programme?

Collaborations

University of Otago

• Dr Azam Ali (Department of Applied Sciences)
• Hamza Bennani (Department of Computer Science)
• Research Associate Professor Claire Cameron (Department of Preventive & Social Medicine)
• Associate Professpr George Dias (Department of Anatomy)
• Professor Barbara Galland (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health)
• Associate Professor Julia Horsfield (Department of Pathology)
• Dr Louise Mainvil (Department of Human Nutrition)
• Associate Professor Tony Merriman (Department of Biochemistry)
• Associate Professor Michael Paulin (Department of Zoology)
• Professor Stephen Robertson (Department of Women’s and Children’s Health)
• Associate Professor Sylvia Sander (Department of Chemistry)
• Centre for Bioengineering and Nanomedicine
• Genetics Otago
• Neuroscience Programme
• Otago Zebrafish Facility

National

• New Zealand Biomouth Research Group
• Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence (MedTech CoRE)

International

• Professor Alan Brook (University of Adelaide)
• Dr Iacopo Cioffi (University of Toronto)
• Jie Fang (Sichuan University)
• Professor Luigi Gallo (University of Zurich)
• Associate Professor David Healey (University of Brisbane)
• Dr Jialing Li (Nanjing Medical University)
• Professor Ambra Michelotti (University of Naples, Federico II)
• Professor Sandro Palla (University of Zurich)