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

Kia ora koutou The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the Call for Abstracts for the PhD Speaker Awards at the 279th Scientific Meeting of the Society. This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday, 12th August 2026, in the Barnett Lecture. An option to attend and present via Zoom will also be […]

The 278th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, the 2026 Research Staff Awards, were held on 17th June. Eight early career research staff had their abstracts accepted to present their research findings. The standard of presentations was incredibly high and the evening was a wonderful showcase of the amazing research being undertaken by our early career research […]

The 277th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, the 2026 Pat Cragg Summer Student Awards, were held on 16th April at the Barnett Lecture Theatre. Ten students presented the findings from their recent summer research studentship, including two presenters online. The standard of presentations was very high, with the 10 presenters being successfully selected by the Editorial […]

Tēnā koutou, The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the 278th Scientific Meeting, which will showcase the research of 8 University of Otago staff members.  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 OPMS and the University of Otago […]

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 […]