{"id":574,"date":"2025-11-17T15:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/?p=574"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:26:08","slug":"masters-and-honours-student-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/masters-and-honours-student-awards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters and Honours Student Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 276th Scientific Meeting of OMSRS<\/strong>, the 2025 Honours\/Masters Student Meeting<\/strong>, 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 night. The presenters were:<\/p>\n

George Willett<\/em><\/strong>, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health<\/p>\n

Isabella Culshaw<\/em><\/strong>, Department of Anatomy<\/p>\n

Emma Casey<\/em><\/strong>, Department of Microbiology & immunology<\/p>\n

Calven Chen<\/em><\/strong>, Faculty of Dentistry<\/p>\n

Sophia Larsen<\/em><\/strong>, School of Pharmacy<\/p>\n

Charlotte Watson<\/em><\/strong>, School of Physiotherapy<\/p>\n

Connor Nicholls<\/em><\/strong>, Department of Anatomy<\/p>\n

Jess Willans<\/em><\/strong>, Departmen tof Biochemistry<\/p>\n

Caitlin O\u2019Donnell<\/em><\/strong>, Department of Oral Rehabilitation<\/p>\n

Polina Shevchuk<\/em><\/strong>, Department of Pathology<\/p>\n

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Honours and Masters student presenters 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The judges for the meeting were Prof Stephanie Woodley<\/strong> (Department of Anatomy), Dr Kate Thomas<\/strong> (Department of Surgical Sciences) and Dr Mudassir Anwar<\/strong> (School of Pharmacy).<\/p>\n

The winner was Isabella Culshaw<\/strong>, Department of Anatomy. (Abstract: \u00a0IR Culshaw<\/u>, OD Jones, RD Ward, RGK Munn. Investigating the impacts of GLP-1 receptor agonism on brain activity and motivated behaviour in rats.). Isabella received $500 in prize money.<\/p>\n

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Winner Isabella Culshaw pictured with OMSRS President Dr Emily Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The runner-up was George Willett<\/strong>, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health. (Abstract: G Willett<\/u>, A Boucsein, C Lopez-Sanchez, R Paul, S Sehgal, J Haszard, C Jefferies, E Wiltshire, M de Bock, and B Wheeler. The AID IMPACT study: automated insulin delivery to improve outcomes for M\u0101ori and Pacific adults with type 1 diabetes and above target glycaemia.) George received $250.<\/p>\n

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Runner-up George Willett pictured with OMSRS President Dr Emily Gray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The standard of presentations was very high. Congratulations to all the presenters, and to Isabella and George on their awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84872],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-results"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","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\/45025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}