04 Jul 2022
Mood, appetite, and breathing – 3 new projects at the Centre
Professor Dave Grattan, Dr Rosie Brown, Dr Sharon Ladyman and Dr Teodora Georgescu have been awarded 3 project grants by...
28 Jun 2022
When female brains listen too much to testosterone
Dr Caroline Decourt from the Anderson group has won the 2022 OMSRS Research Staff Award for her presentation on polycyst...
03 Jun 2022
What have fat and wounds in common?
Associate Professor Alexander Tups has been awarded an Explorer Grant by the New Zealand Health Research Council for res...
26 May 2022
Publication Prize for PNAS Paper
Dr Teodora Georgescu has won the 2021 HNNA publication award in the postdoc category for a paper published in PNAS.
17 Dec 2021
Two awards at PSNZ Prize Forum
At the 2021 Prize Forum of the Physiological Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) Dr Joon Kim won the New and Emerging Research...
23 Nov 2021
CNE PhD Prize for microglia research on polycystic ovary syndrome
PhD student Aisha Sati from the Campbell group has won the 2021 CNE PhD Prize for her work on microglia in a mouse model...
15 Nov 2021
Three Marsden grants for the Centre
Drs Rosie Brown, Sharon Ladyman, and Joon Kim have received Marsden Fund grants from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
16 Sep 2021
MBIE support for development of new mammal-specific pest eradication strategy
Prof Greg Anderson and Dr Caroline Decourt have received MBIE funding for developing a new strategy to selectively eradi...
28 Jul 2021
Two HRC project grants for the Centre
Researchers around Professor David Grattan from the Centre for Neuroendocrinology were successful in acquiring grants fo...
27 Jul 2021
27 July 2021, Otago proud to pledge to openness in animal research
The University of Otago is proud to be an inaugural signatory of an agreement which pledges openness in animal research...
24 Jun 2021
OMSRS Speaker Prize for parental behaviour research
CNE postdocs Kristina Smiley and Teodora Georgescu take home first and second place at the OMSRS staff awards for their...
03 Dec 2020
Researchers find “missing link”
Otago researchers have found the “missing link between stress and infertility”.
27 Nov 2020
CNE PhD Prize for research on the reward of motherhood
Judith Swart from the Rosie Brown lab won the 2020 CNE PhD Prize for her PhD thesis work on how prolactin acts on reward...
27 Nov 2020
Distinguished Researcher Award for Associate Professor Rebecca Campbell
The School of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Otago has awarded Associate Professor Rebecca Campbell with the D...
23 Nov 2020
CNE awarded for Postgraduate Research Culture Excellence
The CNE has been awarded the University of Otago’s 2019 Postgraduate Research Culture Excellence Award.
11 Nov 2020
Three Marsden grants for the CNE
Drs Karl Iremonger, Kristina Smiley and Joe Yip have received Marsden grant funding by the Royal Society of New Zealand.
02 Nov 2020
Unusual suspect: Could deficient 'brain glue' make you infertile?
Dr Elodie Desroziers has been awarded the Hercus Fellowship by the New Zealand Health Research Council to investigate th...
07 Sep 2020
Breastfeeding hormone makes new fathers better dads
Breastfeeding hormone makes new fathers better dads. Study from the University of Otago
01 Jul 2020
Why mothers care: New study on how pregnancy hormones change the brain
Dr Rosie Brown and Prof Dave Grattan receive funding for a new project investigating how the mother’s brain and behaviou...
17 Jun 2020
Positive stress - emerging researcher wins prize for stress studies
Dr Joon Kim from the Iremonger lab has been awarded the emerging researcher prize of the Brain Health Research Centre of...
26 Feb 2020
Zebrafish study continues to attract awards
Kaj Kamstra from the Tups Lab won the young investigator award for his PhD thesis work on blood sugar control and food i...
20 Nov 2019
Carl Smith Medal for Karl Iremonger
Senior lecturer Karl Iremonger has been awarded the University of Otago’s Rowheath Trust Award and Carl Smith Medal for...
12 Nov 2019
A lactation hormone in males?
Prof Dave Grattan and Dr Rosie Brown have attained Marsden grant funding for research on the lactation hormone prolactin...
06 Nov 2019
A fat hormone that regulates blood sugar
The 2019 CNE PhD Prize has been awarded to Kaj Kamstra from the Tups lab for his work on the hormone leptin in zebrafish...
10 Oct 2019
The brain's control over diabetic hearts
PhD student Shivani Sethi, co-supervised by Prof Colin Brown, wins the OMSRS PhD student speaker award for her research...
09 Sep 2019
Sextuple success by CNE trio
CNE members dominate the 2019 HNNA and MedSci meetings during Queenstown research week by winning 6 prizes.
05 Jul 2019
HRC grant to investigate stress in motherhood
Karl Iremonger and Dave Grattan have received funding from the Health Research Council to investigate the brain circuits...
12 Jun 2019
Student success at the 2019 BHRC Symposium
PhD students Bradley Jamieson and Shivani Sethi won awards for their oral and poster presentations at the Brain Health R...
30 May 2019
Student wins prize for work on zebrafish
Kaj Kamstra, PhD student with Alex Tups wins prize for 3-minute presentation on his work with zebrafish
01 May 2019
CNE student awarded for report on summer research project
Eleni Hackwell from the Grattan Lab has been awarded the Summer Research Scholarship Renshaw Prize for the report on her...
13 Mar 2019
Two postdocs successful in attaining research support
Drs Kristina Smiley and Teodora Georgescu have been awarded project support grants from the British Society for Neuroend...
12 Mar 2019
Researcher Profile - Dr Richard Piet
Dr Richard Piet researches how the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the brain’s circadian clock, controls the release of importa...
04 Feb 2019
Researcher Profile - Associate Professor Christine Jasoni
Associate Professor Christine Jasoni is a developmental biologist studying the effects of maternal wellbeing on the brai...
04 Jan 2019
Researcher Profile - Dr Karl Iremonger
Dr Karl Iremonger’s team work on corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) neurons in the hypothalamus to understand the ne...
12 Dec 2018
Researcher Profile - Professor Allan Herbison
Professor Allan Herbison does research on gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) neurons and kisspeptin neurons to find o...
04 Dec 2018
Neurological Foundation awards fellowship to CNE postdoc
Dr Joon Kim from the Iremonger lab has secured 2 years more funding from the Neurological foundation to conduct stress r...
04 Dec 2018
Otago researchers discover a promising therapy for improving heart attack survivorship
Otago researchers discover a promising therapy for improving heart attack survivorship
26 Nov 2018
Dr Rosie Brown is new Sir Charles Hercus Fellow
Dr Rosie Brown has just been awarded the Sir Charles Hercus Health Research Fellowship by the New Zealand Health Researc...
19 Nov 2018
A week of prizes, posters and lectures for the CNE
CNE students and postdocs won multiple prizes during a week filled with events like the CNE Lecture, CNE PhD Prize compe...
13 Nov 2018
Prof. Dave Grattan new CNE Director
Professor Dave Grattan takes over CNE directorship from Prof. Allan Herbison; Associate Prof. Rebecca Campbell becomes t...
18 Oct 2018
CNE young researcher recognised through early career award
Dr Rosie Brown just won the University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research for her work on the role...
10 Oct 2018
Researcher Profile - Associate Professor Rebecca Campbell
Associate Professor Rebecca Campbell's lab works on the neural circuits that control fertility, focusing in particular o...
07 Sep 2018
PhD student receives MacGibbon Fellowship
India Sawyer, PhD student with Professor Greg Anderson, has just been awarded the MacGibbon PhD travel fellowship by the...
03 Sep 2018
Researcher Profile - Associate Professor Stephen Bunn
Associate Professor Stephen Bunn performs research on the release of catecholamines from the hypothalamus and adrenal gl...
31 Aug 2018
Smart and looking good - CNE researchers take home range of prizes
CNE researchers won 3 academic prizes at the Medical Sciences Congress at the Queenstown Research Week 2018 and also won...
07 Aug 2018
Researcher Profile - Professor Colin Brown
Professor Colin Brown works on how the brain controls various body functions such as blood pressure, giving birth, milk...
22 Jun 2018
$5 million boost for Otago team’s quest to restore fertility in women with disabling ovary disorder
$5 million boost for Otago team’s quest to restore fertility in women with disabling ovary disorder
09 Apr 2018
New clues to help restore fertility in women with disabling ovary disorder
Ground-breaking research out of the University of Otago is showing potential to restore fertility in women suffering Pol...
07 Feb 2018
First human trial of potentially game-changing diabetes treatment set to commence
University of Otago researchers are ready to take a significant step in the development of a new natural product that co...
10 Nov 2017
Landmark study from Otago clarifies brain's role in fertility control
Crucial new information about how the brain controls fertility has been unlocked by University of Otago researchers, wit...