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Research Staff Award 2025 – Call for Abstracts

Kia ora koutou,

The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Research Staff Award at the 274th Scientific Meeting of the Society.

This will occur between 5.00 – 7.30 pm on Wednesday 11th June 2025 in the Colquhoun Lecture. An option for attending and presenting via Zoom will also be offered.

To be eligible for the Award, you must:

  1. Have not previously won this award.
  2. Report the results of health-related research that you have made a major contribution to, and which was performed while employed in this role at the University of Otago, Dunedin.
  3. Be either:
    1. Research Assistant, Assistant Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Officer or Research Fellow at the time of submission or have completed a contract in one of these roles within the last three months, or
    2. Lecturer, Professional Practice Fellow, or Teaching Fellow, appointed to this role within the last 3 years

The prizes for this meeting are sponsored by University of Otago’s School of Biomedical Sciences. The winner prize is $500, and the runner up prize is $250.

For details on how to enter and abstract preparation guidelines, please see our blog page https://blogs.otago.ac.nz/omsrs/abstract-submission/

Abstract submission closes at 5pm on Monday 5th May 2025. 

Nāu te rourou, nāku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi

(With your basket, and my basket, the people will be well)”