Clinical and translational researchKey personnel and collaborations

Academic and research staff

• Dr Joanne Choi
• Professor Warwick Duncan
• Associate Professor Vincent Bennani
• Ms Dorothy Boyd
• Professor Jonathan Broadbent
• Professor Paul Brunton
• Professor Nicholas Chandler
• Associate Professor Dawn Coates
• Dr Gemma Cotton
• Professor Mauro Farella
• Associate Professor Lyndie Foster Page (NZ Defence Force, Honorary Associate Professor at Otago)
• Dr Carolina Loch Santos Da Silva
• Professor Sunyoung Ma
• Dr Trudy Milne
• Dr Jithendra Ratnayake
• Professor Patrick R. Schmidlin (University of Zurich, Honorary Professor at Otago)
• Professor Andrew Tawse-Smith
• Dr Donald Schwass
• Professor Darryl Tong
• Professor Neil Waddell

ARCH network personnel

• Ms Suzanne Hanlin
• Associate Professor Lara Friedlander

Current and recent postgraduate students

Dina Abdelmoneim
Asrar Elahi
Rachel Farrar (Walters)
Christina Gee
Siddharth Kothari
Nurul Aida Ngah
Saeideh Nobakht
Anumala Ram
Frances Ruddiman
Yevgeny Sheftel
Tatiana Tkatchenko

Interested in joining our programme?

View research opportunities at the SJWRI

National and international collaborations

Within the University of Otago

• Department of Applied Sciences, Clothing & Textile Sciences
• Department of Geology
• Department of Preventive & Social Medicine
• Department of Physics
• Department of Chemistry
• School of Pharmacy

Other Universities

• Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Auckland
• MedTech CoRE (Centre for Research Excellence), New Zealand
• University of Western Australia
• University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Chonbuk University, Korea
• University of Zürich, Switzerland
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zürich, Switzerland

Companies and other organizations

• Aroa Biosurgery Ltd
• Callaghan Innovation (New Zealand)
• eviDENT Practice-Based Research Network (Victoria, Australia)
• Geistlich Pharma (Switzerland)
• Ivoclar International (Liechtenstein)
• Molteno Ophthalmic Ltd (New Zealand)
• Resorba Medical GmbH (Germany)
• Southern Implants Ltd (South Africa)
• Zimmer Biomet 3i (United States of America)