Congratulations to the department's Dr Peter Fineran, who has been awarded a significant grant in this year's Marsden funding round.
Dr James Ussher has been awarded $29,980 of the University of Otago's Dean’s Bequest funds to support his research project: Determining the role of innate immune cells in early clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
PhD student Andrew Highton was presented the 2004 Eli Lilly Lab Based Researcher Award last night at the New Zealand Society for Oncology conference.
Department staff often have opportunities to get involved with schools and community groups, teaching them about the microscopic world around us. Ros Kemp and Kirsten Ward-Hartstonge visited Hornby High School recently to talk to Year 7 kids about immunology,
Frank Griffin has been profiled recently in three farming publications: Farmer’s Weekly, Country-Wide magazine and Dairy Export News.
Dr Heather Brooks has received two accolades in this year’s Otago University Medical Students’ Association (OUMSA) Teaching Excellence Awards.
Congratulations to Sam Norton who won the PhD Student Speaker award at the Otago Medical School Research Society (OMSRS) Scientific Meeting.
Professor Clive Ronson has accepted the role of Head of Department of Microbiology and Immunology, as of 1 October.
Congratulations to Dr Peter Fineran, Raymond Staals (Post-doctoral Fellow) and Hannah Hampton (PhD student) who have been awarded $15,500 from the University of Otago's Dean’s Bequest Funds for their research project entitled Mode of action of a widespread toxin-antitoxin bacteriophage resistance system.
PhD student Andrew Highton has won a prestigious Nuffield post-doctoral fellowship to Oxford University.
