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Joseph Chen, PhD candidate, wins 3MT “People’s Choice” award
Joseph Chen was one of the 13 top postgraduate students who took on the challenge of sharing their research to a general audience in three minutes, with nothing but a single static slide, as part of the 2021 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Joseph’s...
Associate Professor Jo Barnes – member of research team winning HRC funding for smoking cessation study
School of Pharmacy academic and Deputy Head of School, Associate Professor Jo Barnes, is a member of a team of researchers awarded an Health Research Council (HRC) grant of $1.439m to undertake clinical trial of cytisine (a chemical compound found in several plant...
PhD student, Marvin Liu, wins international conference presentation awards
Marvin Mengyang Liu, has been awarded a highly prestigious "on-demand talk award" at the International Controlled Release Society (CRS) 2021 Conference. Previously, Marvin was awarded as the ‘best oral presenter’ at the 2019 Australian CRS meeting, which provided...
Dr Anna Forsyth awarded prestigious MBIE Whitinga Fellowship
Dr. Anna Forsyth from the School of Pharmacy is one of the recipients of the MBIE Whitinga Fellowship, valued at $320,000. These fellowships are intended to support up-and-coming researchers to rise and establish a career in their chosen field of research....
Dr Rachael Sumner awarded prestigious Neurological Foundation First Fellowship
Dr Rachael Sumner has been awarded a highly prestigious Neurological Foundation First Fellowship to undertake a project exploring whether the menstrual cycle increase seizures for many women with epilepsy. Epilepsy is one of the most common, debilitating...
Achieving Equitable Access to Medicines
Last week HRC announced the recipient of their Achieving Equitable Access to Medicines Request for Proposal, a Partnership Programme grant co-funded with PHARMAC. Ngā Kaitiki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa – The Māori Pharmacists’ Association (MPA) was the successful...
Marsden and Health Research Council successes 2021
Huge congratulations to a number of School of Pharmacy academics who have been successful in the 2021 Marsden and HRC rounds.Associate Professor Darren Svirskis is co-PI with Professor Bronwen Connor on a Marsden Funded project ‘Reprogrammed dopamine cells in...
School Academic Becomes Fellow
Jo Barnes, Associate Professor in Herbal Medicines and Deputy Head of the School of Pharmacy, was awarded Fellowship of the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) at the Society's annual general meeting on October 14th 2020. The award reflects Jo's contributions to ISoP, and to pharmacovigilance research, teaching and practice, over the last 25 years. Jo is the first New Zealand pharmacist to receive this award, and one of only two New Zealanders to be recognized in this way.
