We are extremely excited about the calibre of this year’s OMRF Annual Grant recipients and projects, with another year of excellent applications.
The announcement was made in Saturday’s Otago Daily Times - https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/aim-to-develop-test-to-predict-drug-harm-hzki68b1
If you are unable to access the article, it is copied at the end of this news post. We would also like to acknowledge the supporters who have funded these exciting grants.
“Repurposing a family of antivirals to complement immunotherapy in bowel cancers” (sponsored by Otago Community Trust) - Principal investigator: Dr. Nicholas Fleming, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine - Dunedin (co-investigators: Assoc Prof Anita Dunbier, Department of Biochemistry and Prof Christopher Jackson, Faculty of Medicine - Dunedin), University of Otago
“When Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) Is Not Enough: Understanding Exceptional Survival in Ovarian Cancer” (sponsored by Estate of Shona Anne Rowley) - Principal investigator: Dr Magdalena Ratajska, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Health Professional Programmes (co-investigators: Dr Mak Sarwar, Faculty of Medicine - Christchurch, Assoc Prof Tania Slatter, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, and Dr Simone Petrich, Faculty of Medicine - Dunedin), University of Otago
“Predicting harm from synthetic cathinones” (sponsored by Otago Community Trust) - Principal investigator: Professor Michelle Glass, School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Otago
“Understanding and overcoming cephalosporin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa” (sponsored by Aotea Group Holdings and Otago Medical Research Foundation) - Principal investigator: Assoc. Prof Daniel Pletzer, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago
“Detecting novel protein isoforms in preserved gastrointestinal tumour tissue: A pilot study” (sponsored by Aotearoa Gaming Trust) - Co-Principal investigators: Dr Cushla McKinney and Assoc Prof Adele Woolley, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine - Dunedin (co-investigators: Dr Silke Neumann, Assoc Prof Sharon Pattison, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine - Dunedin), University of Otago
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