Bioengineering at Otago

As the home of the Centre for Bioengineering & Nanomedicine-UoO Dunedin, we'd like to highlight the upcoming Bioengineering Open Day in the Hunter Centre on Friday 5 September, 3-5pm.
This is a great opportunity for anyone studying Health Sciences at Otago, Sciences at University of Otago or Engineering who is interested in learning more about Otago's postgraduate programmes in Bioengineering, the cutting-edge research being carried out in the Centre, or where a career in the field could lead you... and enjoy some pizza!
You can learn more at www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/bioengineering-open-day-2025

and if you're planning to attend, please email Bioengineering at Otago [email protected] to register by 1 September.

Are you an undergraduate student interested in developing Bioengineering and Health Technologies of the future?

Then checkout this free seminar by Bioengineering@otago

With a physical event and virtual link 😀

Checkout our upcoming "MedTech in Christchurch" event.

Queenstown Research Week (QRW)
As part of QRW in August the Molecular Biology (QMB) held their 32nd Annual meeting. Co-convened by Bioengineering researchers’ Dr Sarah Diermeier and Assoc Prof Jaydee Cabral the event held a Bioengineering sponsored commercialisation event. A diverse range of speakers coming from Callaghan Innovation, Universities of Canterbury, Auckland, Otago, Queensland, and the University of Maryland.

A Postdoc position is now open for applications working at the Christchurch Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (CReaTE) group at the University of Otago.

An outstanding opportunity for a talented early career scientist, working on a project focused on Bioconvergence technologies in developmental engineering, using biofabrication technologies as your tool.

You will focus on advanced biomaterials and bioink development for 3D Bioprinting/bio-assembly strategies to engineer hybrid constructs for regenerative medicine, specifically probing 3D models and translation of spheroid/organoid microenvironments.

This is a fixed term full-time position for two years, located in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Applications quoting reference number 2202137 will close on Sunday, 15
January 2023.

Link to apply below:
https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=2202137

Winning Students at the Bioengineering Showcase

The 13th Bioengineering Showcase was held over the 24th & 25th of November 2022 on the Dunedin campus with over 60 attendees, physically at Dunedin, and virtually in Zoom. The Showcase was funded by Bioengineering@Otago and generously sponsored by the CDM/TTM MedTech Research Network.

The winning students at the Bioengineering Showcase held in November 2022 in Dunedin - left to right:

The 13th Bioengineering Showcase was held over the 24th & 25th of November 2022 on the Dunedin campus with over 60 attendees, physically at Dunedin, and virtually in Zoom. The Showcase was funded by Bioengineering@Otago and generously sponsored by the CDM/TTM MedTech Research Network.

1st Place: Lousie Croizat-Viallet (middle)
Pharmacology and Toxicology - UOD
"Understanding the role of subcutaneous adipose tissue extracellular matrix in wound healing complications following caesarean deliveries"

2nd Place: Hayley Stent (left)
Pharmacology and Toxicology - UOD
"Characterisation of hydrogels produced through self-assembly of Australasian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) and Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) skin collage"

3rd Place: Axel Norberg (right)
CReaTE Orthopaedics - UOC
"Incorporation of oxygen carrying Haemoglobin within Heparin-laden microspheres for bioassembly"

Some time ago ;-)

And also congratulations to Dr Xiaolin (Steven) Cui for winning the 2021 Young Investigator award from the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine https://bit.ly/3a3OY7o

Congratulations Axel for winning the best oral presentation award at ISBF
https://bit.ly/3p0NGTq

Great article about Lieza Vanden Broeke, MARS researcher.
If anyone can keep on top of MS it is Lieza 👍

Marathon runner happy to run only 50m - NZ Herald Brave woman with multiple sclerosis shows how to live with the condition.

Congratulation to CReaTE new PhD student Laura Veenendaal for winning the Health Research Society of Canterbury's Best Poster Award this month :-)

https://www.otago.ac.nz/bioengineering/news/otago831813.html