Auckland Medical Research Foundation (AMRF) Outstanding Emerging Researcher & Best Doctoral Oral Presentation Award

Robyn May – A computational model to identify cardiovascular remodeling related to prematurity and predict later cardiovascular risk

Liggins Institute and Auckland Bioengineering Institute

Supervisor: Dr. Soroush Safaei

AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award

Wenxuan Chen – IGF signaling mediates lymphatic vessel growth in zebrafish

Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology

Supervisor: Dr. Jonathan Astin

Second Runner Up Doctoral Oral Presentation Award

Risa Takahashi – Understanding the Innate Immune Response to Group A Streptococcus Pili

Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology

Supervisor: Dr. Catherine Tsai

Best Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Award

Caitlin Jardim – Osteoarthritis: Uncovering gene expression differences between the sexes

Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology

Supervisor: Dr. Raewyn Poulsen

Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation First Runner Up Award

Doris Zhang – The Impact of COVID19 Lockdown on Chinese Care Homes in New Zealand

Department of Psychological Medicine

Supervisor: Dr. Gary Cheung

Non-Doctoral Oral Presentation Second Runner Up Award

Agrani Ratnayake Kumar – Ethnicity, deprivation, and access to endoscopic sinus surgery

Department of Surgery

Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Wood

Auckland Medical Research Foundation Best Poster Presentation Award

Phoebe Burns – Investigating the influence of hypoxia on cGAS-STING signaling in macrophages

Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre

Supervisor: Dr. Dean Singleton

Poster Presentation First Runner Up Award

Gabrielle Sebaratnam Can psychological factors and colonic motility predict postoperative complications? An observational pilot study

Department of Psychological Medicine

Supervisor: Dr. Elizabeth Broadbent

Poster Presentation Second Runner Up Award

Delshad Kalantry – In vivo fibre photometry in freely behaving mice: A technique to measure hippocampal neuronal activity

Department of Anatomy and Medical Imaging

Supervisor: Dr. Andrea Kwakowsky

Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust Best Elevator Pitch Presentation Award

Jenna Keepa – Atrial Fibrillation after cardiac surgery; An analysis of New Zealand Cardiac Surgery Registry data

School of Nursing

Supervisor: Dr. Cynthia Wensley

FMHS-Post Doctoral Society First Runner Up Elevator Pitch Presentation Award

Michael Pudjihartono – Functional interpretation of enhancer mutations driving the onset and progression of melanoma

Liggins Institute

Supervisor: Professor Justin O’Sullivan

FMHS-Postgraduate Student Association Second Runner Up Elevator Pitch Presentation Award

Marvin Liu – Visualisation of PEGylated Nanocarrier for Thymopentin in Immunodepression Modulation

School of Pharmacy

Supervisor: Associate Professor Jingyuan Wen