Professor Margreet Vissers
- Job title
- Research Professor, Associate Dean (Research)
- Telephone
- +64 3 364 1524
- Mobile
- +64 27 228 2164
- margreet.vissers@otago.ac.nz
- Section
- Dean's Department (UOC)
- Department
- Pathology and Biomedical Science Dept, Dean's Department (UOC)
- School
- University of Otago, Christchurch
- Division
- Division of Health Sciences
- Campus
- Christchurch
Social Media
Expertise
Health and Medicine
- Nutrition and Cancer treatment
- Vitamin C and cancer
- Tumour hypoxia and responsiveness to treatment
- Breast cancer, colon cancer
- Acute myeloid leukemia
- Glioblastoma
- White blood cell function
- Pneumonia and immunity
- Generation of bleach by white blood cells
- Tissue injury and inflammation
- Chronic lung injury following pneumonia
- Oxidative stress
- Antioxidants and nutrition
- Vitamin C for immune function
- Vitamin C in infectious diseases
- Vitamin C in sepsis and acute respiratory illness
Science and Technology
- Vitamin C and nutrition
- Vitamin C and vitality
- Health benefits of kiwifruit
- Berryfuit polyphenols
- Antioxidants and nutrition