{"id":485,"date":"2025-02-12T10:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/?p=485"},"modified":"2025-02-12T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:19:03","slug":"msc-and-honours-student-awards-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/msc-and-honours-student-awards-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"MSc and Honours Student Awards 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 272<sup>nd<\/sup> Scientific Meeting of OMSRS, which is the 2024 MSc\/Hons meeting, was held on November 6<sup>th<\/sup> at the Barnett Lecture Theatre from 5:00 to 7:30 pm. This year, ten shortlisted students presented.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was convened by Professor Shyamal Das, President of OMSRS, and the judges for the presentations were Dr. Adam Middleton, Dr. Benedict Seo, Professor Gisela Sole, and Dr. Jack Dummer.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_487\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-487\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-487\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-2048x1024.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/MScHons-group-2-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-487\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student presenters pictured with Professor Shyamal Das and Professor Suetonia Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The winner was <strong>Chloe Schwass from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology<\/strong> (<u>CM Schwass<\/u>, GS Stuart, AM Bunning, G Watson, G Sawyer, LM Wise Immunomodulatory effects of a native New Zealand tree fern polysaccharide on macrophages). She received a certificate and $500 in prize money.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-486\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-486\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-135x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-768x1707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-691x1536.jpg 691w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-922x2048.jpg 922w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Chloe-winner-MScHons-scaled.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winner Chloe Schwass pictured with Professor Suetonia Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The runner-up was <strong>Stephanie Ung from the Department of Oral Rehabilitation<\/strong> (<u>S Ung<\/u>, A Senthilkumar, W Jansen van Vuuren, V Bennani. A modified tooth preparation design influences the marginal and internal fit of 3D-printed onlays). She received a certificate and $250 in prize money.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-488\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-488\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-135x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-135x300.jpg 135w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-461x1024.jpg 461w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-768x1707.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-691x1536.jpg 691w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-922x2048.jpg 922w, https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/files\/2025\/02\/Stephanie-runner-up-MScHons-scaled.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runner-up Stephanie Ung pictured with Professor Suetonia Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor Suetonia Green, Dean of Dunedin School of Medicine attended as the Chief Guest. She appreciated the high standard of presentations and handed over the awards.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Chloe and Stephanie!<\/p>\n<p>Ng\u0101 mihi,<\/p>\n<p>Professor Shyamal Das<\/p>\n<p>President, Otago Medical School Research Society<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","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\/44319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}