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 […]

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 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 […]

The 274th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, the 2025 Research Staff Meeting, was held on 11th at the Colquhoun Lecture Theatre. Five early career researchers had their abstracts accepted by the Editorial Panel, and the the overall standard of presentation on the night was extremely high. The presenters were: Dr Sai Shyam Vasantharajan, Department of Pathology […]

The 273rd Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, the 2025 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 […]

The 272nd Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, which is the 2024 MSc/Hons meeting, was held on November 6th at the Barnett Lecture Theatre from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. This year, ten shortlisted students presented. The meeting was convened by Professor Shyamal Das, President of OMSRS, and the judges for the presentations were Dr. Adam Middleton, Dr. […]

  The 270th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS which is the 2024 Research Staff Awards was held on the 19th June at Colquhoun Lecture theatre between 5-6.30 pm. This year four staff shortlisted by Editorial Panel led by Dr Adam Middleton presented.   The meeting was convened by Professor Shyamal Das, President of OMSRS, and judges […]

The 271st Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, which is the 2024 PhD meeting, was held on August 14th at the Barnett Lecture Theatre from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. This year, nine shortlisted PhD students presented. Unfortunately, one shortlisted student could not present due to illness.   The meeting was convened by Professor Shyamal Das, President of […]

The 269th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS which is the 2024 Pat Cragg Summer Student Awards was held on the 24th April at Barnett Lecture theatre between 5-7.30pm. This year 10 students including 3 online presenters who were shortlisted by Editorial Panel led by Dr Adam Middleton from 24 submissions. The meeting was convened by Professor Shyamal […]

The Otago Medical School Research Society’s 268th  Scientific Meeting was held on 8th November.  This year we had 17 abstracts from MSc and Honours students across the Division of Health Sciences and Sciences. The Editorial panel has shortlisted 10 students who presented their research. Dr Glen Reid from the Department of Pathology, Associate Professor Jaydee […]