Bioengineering at Otago

25/08/2025

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.

15/07/2025

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 😀

08/02/2024

Checkout our upcoming "MedTech in Christchurch" event.

17/12/2023

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.

12/12/2022

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

05/12/2022

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"

10/12/2021

Some time ago ;-)

14/10/2021

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

14/10/2021

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

15/09/2021

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

Brave woman with multiple sclerosis shows how to live with the condition.

29/08/2021

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