{"id":254,"date":"2022-08-24T13:07:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/?p=254"},"modified":"2022-09-01T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T22:32:29","slug":"2022-phd-student-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/2022-phd-student-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 PhD Student Award &#8211; Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Otago Medical School Research Society&#8217;s 263rd Scientific Meeting was held on 17th August.\u00a0 The occasion was marked by 10 excellent presentations from PhD candidates across the Health Science disciplines (pictured below)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/All-PhD.jpg 1076w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">From left to right:<\/span> <strong>Chitra Krishnan<\/strong>, John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry<br \/>\n<strong>Kushan Gandhi<\/strong>, Department of Anatomy, Brain Health Research Centre, <strong>Anastasia Labudina<\/strong>, Department of Pathology, <strong>Sung Kyong Lee<\/strong>, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine,<strong> Rackesh Bastola<\/strong>, School of Pharmacy, <strong>Panagiotis Papaioannou<\/strong>, Centre for Neuroendocrinology Department of Anatomy, <strong>Ian Liddle<\/strong>, Department of Chemistry, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, <strong>Sarah McQueen<\/strong>, Department of Physiology, <strong>Caitlin Berry-Kilgour<\/strong>, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology<br \/>\n<strong>Mifra Faiz<\/strong>, Department of Biochemistry (not pictured)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Congratulations to the winner,\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Sarah McQueen<\/strong> for <em>Alpha-ENaC overexpression in MDAMB231 breast cancer cells reduces cell migration and proliferation,\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>and to the runner-up Kushan Gandhi <\/strong>for <em>A Focused Ultrasound-Mediated Drug Delivery System for Parkinson\u2019s Disease<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/Winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/Winners-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/Winners-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/Winners-768x582.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/Winners-396x300.jpg 396w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2022\/08\/Winners.jpg 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Sarah<\/strong> (left) and <strong>Kushan<\/strong> (right) pictured here with the President of OSMRS,<strong> Assoc. Professor Gisela Sole<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First and runner-up prizes were kindly sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otago.ac.nz\/opms\/\">The Otago Postgraduate Medical Society<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/omrf.org.nz\">Otago Medical Research Foundation<\/a> respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Otago Medical School Research Society&#8217;s 263rd Scientific Meeting was held on 17th August.\u00a0 The occasion was marked by 10 excellent presentations from PhD candidates across the Health Science disciplines (pictured below) From left to right: Chitra Krishnan, John Walsh Research Institute, Faculty of Dentistry Kushan Gandhi, Department of Anatomy, Brain Health Research Centre, Anastasia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}