Dr Lisa Te Morenga, EDOR researcher and senior lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington, has been awarded the Royal Society Te Apārangi Hamilton Award.
The Royal Society 2019 Research Honours Awards Aotearoa was held in Dunedin on Thursday 17 October. Dr Te Morenga was recognised for her contribution to international evidence-based nutrition policy, stemming from her research examining the impact of dietary sugars on body weight
Dr Moana Theodore, also an EDOR member, was co-host of the event.
Listen to an interview with Lisa Te Morenga
Honour a sweet reward for sugar research, Radio NZ, 17 October, 2019 (14m22s)
Read more about Lisa Te Morenga's research
- 2019 Hamilton Award: Proving that dietary sugar increases body weight, Royal Society, 2019
- Otago University breakthrough in the war on sugar, 7 December, 2017
- Do you know if there is added sugar in your food? 1 December 2017
- Long-standing research interest in sugar has world-wide impact, 23 March, 2016
