Kia ora koutou, The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Research Staff Meeting Award at the 278th Scientific Meeting of the Society. This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 17th June 2026 in the Barnett Lecture. An option for attending and presenting via Zoom will […]

Tēnā koutou,   The Otago Medical School Research Society (OMSRS) is proud to announce 277th Scientific Meeting of the Society which will showcase the research performed by 10 University of Otago Summer research students.  A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker (sponsored by Otago Medical Research Foundation), and the runner-up will be awarded $250 (sponsored by Faculty of Biomedical Sciences). The scientific […]

The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Summer Student Research Award at the 277th Scientific Meeting of the Society. This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 22nd April, 2026 in the Barnett Lecture. An option for attending and presenting via Zoom will also be […]

The 276th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, the 2025 Honours/Masters Student Meeting, was held on the 5th November 2025. Thank you to the Faculty of Biomedical Sciences for sponsoring this event. 10 students from a variety of Faculty and departments within the Health Sciences Division had their abstracts accepted by the Editorial Panel and presented on […]

Tēnā koutou  The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce 276th Scientific Meeting of the Society which will showcase the research performed by 10 University of Otago MSc / Hons/ PGDipSci students.  A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker, and the runner-up will be awarded $250. The scientific meeting and prizes are kindly sponsored by […]

The Science Writing Prize 2025 prizegiving was held on 1st October 2025. The event was kindly sponsored by the School of Biomedical Sciences and Kainic Medical. Many thanks to all who attended and submitted their writing.   The winner and runner up were:  Winner: Nidhi Bhagi – “When Our Cells Turn Selfish- Hidden Weakness in Aggressive […]

The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the Call for Abstracts for the MSc / Hons / PGDipSci Speaker Award at the 276th Scientific Meeting of the Society. This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 5th November 2025 in the Barnett Lecture. A panel of judges will award $500 to the […]

The 275th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, the 2025 PhD Student Meeting, was held on the 13th August 2025. The event was generously sponsored by the Otago Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) and Leica Biosystems. 10 PhD students had their abstracts accepted by the Editorial Panel and presented on the night. The presenters were:  Joan Chan, Department […]

Tēnā koutou   The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce 275th Scientific Meeting of the Society which will showcase the research performed by 10 University of Otago PhD students.  A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker, and the runner-up will be awarded $250. The scientific meeting and prizes are kindly sponsored by Leica Biosystems and […]

Are you a current student carrying out health or wellbeing-related research at the University of Otago, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, with an interest in communicating your science to a wider audience?   Then the Otago Medical School Research Society Science Writing Award is for you!  We want you, in no more than 800 words, to tell us why […]