09 Apr 2025
Whānau at the forefront for researchers
Whānau is at the heart of cancer research projects set to be undertaken by three Otago scholarship recipients.
27 Feb 2025
Fellowships awarded to UOC cancer researchers
Christchurch researchers investigating opportunities for cancer therapies have been given a funding boost from the Cance...
24 Jan 2025
Overwhelming support for smokefree policies among smokers, ex smokers
New Zealanders who smoke and those who have recently quit smoking have expressed high levels of support for the creation...
21 Nov 2024
Marsden grants another boost for Pathology Department
Receiving two significant Marsden grants this month continues a string of successes for the Dunedin School of Medicine’s...
20 Nov 2024
Funding win for cancer drug researchers
Professor Mark Hampton from the University of Otago, Christchurch, has won this year’s Otago Innovation Ltd (OIL) Proof...
07 Nov 2024
Otago cancer researcher wins prestigious national award
A recently awarded prestigious national fellowship will help an Otago researcher further his work to improve the diagnos...
07 Nov 2024
Major Marsden Fund grants awarded to UOC researchers
Four University of Otago Christchurch, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka Ōtautahi researchers involved in cancer, pneumonia and cardi...
03 Oct 2024
Cancer-drug delivery focus of research
A novel way to deliver anti-cancer medication could change the lives of cancer patients forever, according to Otago Asso...
08 Jul 2024
Funding awarded to continue critical cancer research
Lung cancer is the greatest single cancer contributor to the life expectancy gap between Māori and non-Māori. University...
09 May 2024
Early onset bowel cancer on the rise
There’s a fresh call for a lowering of the bowel cancer screening age in Aotearoa New Zealand, in the wake of new Univer...
01 May 2024
Otago awarded prestigious PM's science prize
The University of Otago’s HDGC Research Group has received the Te Pūiaki Putaiao Matua a Te Pirimia Prime Minister’s Sci...
01 Mar 2024
Diermeier Lab awarded grant from RNA research platform
A research team led by Otago Biochemistry’s Dr Sarah Diermeier has just been awarded a grant to improve an therapeutic m...