News from the School of Biomedical Sciences
20 Mar 2025
Otago Biochemists support Silver Science
For some it was their first time back in a classroom for over sixty-five years, but that didn’t stop participants in a r...
18 Mar 2025
Batten Disease research efforts recognised
Professor Stephanie Hughes’s work on a rare childhood disease has been nationally recognised.
18 Mar 2025
Learning more about a rare form of Parkinson’s disease
If the community around us isn't strong, then we struggle to function to the best of our ability and the same can be sai...
17 Mar 2025
Otago Biochemist explores Antarctic waters
Walls of sea ice, penguins and whales, mountains, history, and creatures from the icy deep - just a selection of what Em...
14 Mar 2025
Putting ethics at the forefront in the use of human skeletal remains
Department of Anatomy researcher Professor Siân Halcrow is collaborating with two biological anthropology colleagues fro...
13 Mar 2025
Otago success in QS World Rankings
The University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka is home to New Zealand’s highest ranked subject area in the latest QS Wor...
20 Feb 2025
Govt invests $25m in Otago-led genomics research
A major new investment into genomics research highlights the importance of genomics to New Zealand’s future wellbeing an...
05 Feb 2025
University of Otago Medical School appoints first wahine Māori Dean
The University of Otago - Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, has appointed its first wahine Māori to the role of Dean at the Otago Me...
27 Jan 2025
Predicting ‘male-time’ with the Androgen Clock
Researchers from the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka have created a world-first epigenetic tool which has imp...
24 Jan 2025
Funding for neurological disorder research
Four Otago researchers have been granted almost $690,000 for their research into neurological conditions.
24 Jan 2025
New Associate Dean Space focused on solutions
With experience in university operations both at the University of Otago and abroad, Associate Professor Peter Cathro ha...
16 Jan 2025
Brainwave training: A novel approach to managing chronic pain
A School of Biomedical Sciences researcher has received an international award for his research into non-invasive pain r...
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