{"id":652,"date":"2026-06-16T13:02:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/?p=652"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T01:05:33","slug":"research-staff-award-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/research-staff-award-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Research Staff Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-ogsc=\"black\">T\u0113n\u0101 koutou,<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce\u00a0the 278th\u00a0Scientific\u00a0<span class=\"marksze3b6mvl\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Meeting<\/span>, which will showcase the research of 8\u00a0University of Otago\u00a0staff members.\u00a0 A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker, and the runner-up will be awarded $250. The scientific\u00a0<span class=\"marksze3b6mvl\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">meeting<\/span>\u00a0and prizes are kindly sponsored by the OPMS and the University of Otago School of Biomedical Sciences.<\/div>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">The\u00a0<span class=\"marksze3b6mvl\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">meeting<\/span>\u00a0will take place between 5.00 and 7.30 pm on\u00a0<b data-ogsc=\"\">Wednesday, 17th June 2026,<\/b>\u00a0in the Barnett Lecture Theatre, with the\u00a0option to attend via Zoom.<\/div>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><a id=\"OWAd33317b8-1022-5aac-1faf-c23c8c0be00c\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/otago.zoom.us\/j\/93371244212?pwd=lTZBNnIdc5yH8Nc8aGihRjb0Qkp5aj.1. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fotago.zoom.us%2Fj%2F93371244212%3Fpwd%3DlTZBNnIdc5yH8Nc8aGihRjb0Qkp5aj.1&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cstean207%40student.otago.ac.nz%7C2f6a409018a44305334a08deca82b261%7C0225efc578fe4928b1579ef24809e9ba%7C0%7C0%7C639170859875992834%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=QXulnV3JN67mUt7k2TROlhSc4SQ0OBkjOrHG45V1YUc%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-outlook-id=\"3d588342-c668-4e1b-a81c-a6a6eaff1176\" data-linkindex=\"0\" data-ogsc=\"rgb(70, 120, 134)\"><u data-ogsc=\"\">https:\/\/otago.zoom.us\/j\/93371244212?pwd=lTZBNnIdc5yH8Nc8aGihRjb0Qkp5aj.1<\/u><\/a><\/div>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><span class=\"marksze3b6mvl\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Meeting<\/span>\u00a0ID: 933 7124 4212<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Password: 883048<\/div>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0Our speakers are :<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Michael Perkinson, Department of Physiology<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Jia Yap, Department of Medicine<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Sofia Peters,\u00a0School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Helen Waddell, Department of Physiology<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Teodora Georgescu, Department of Anatomy<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Nicholas Anderson, Department of Anatomy<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Anupriya Gupta, Department of\u00a0<a name=\"x_OLE_LINK1\" data-outlook-id=\"6a508b84-7fd8-44b7-bb07-adb4ac05bb9d\" data-ogsc=\"\"><\/a>Microbiology and Immunology<\/li>\n<li data-ogsc=\"black\">Hannah Darroch, Department of Pathology\u00a0and Molecular Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">Please join us to celebrate research at Otago.<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">N\u0101u te rourou, n\u0101ku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi<\/div>\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\">\u00a0(With your basket, and my basket, the people will be well)<\/div>\n<p data-ogsc=\"black\">\n<div data-ogsc=\"black\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>T\u0113n\u0101 koutou, The Otago Medical School Research Society is proud to announce\u00a0the 278th\u00a0Scientific\u00a0Meeting, which will showcase the research of 8\u00a0University of Otago\u00a0staff members.\u00a0 A panel of judges will award $500 to the best speaker, and the runner-up will be awarded $250. The scientific\u00a0meeting\u00a0and prizes are kindly sponsored by the OPMS and the University of Otago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45025,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","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=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/omsrs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}