News Highlights
Hot Off the Press!
Hot off the press! It has been an honour to collaborate with world experts in acute pancreatitis research and clinical practice to publish this book with Springer Nature. It highlights current knowledge, research priorities and practical clinical advice. A special...
Leaps and Bounds – A new way to do science
The way we fund and do science needs to change if we are to address the big issues facing humanity with the urgency they demand. We are faced with multiple and massive challenges, including climate, hunger, population, aging, water, biodiversity, inequalities and...
Technology in wine making could be repurposed to stop those in postoperative complications -Healthy Living Interviewing
Listen to Professor John Wilson FRSNZ, explain wine tech to postoperative complications research at Auckland University
Lymphatics in Health and Disease, Symposium Queenstown
The STaR Centre hosted a 2 day symposium as a satellite meeting to the Queenstown Research Week, on the theme of ‘‘Lymphatics in Health and Disease’. The lymphatic system has been called the forgotten circulation. There has been an exponential increase in...
Welcoming the talented emerging researcher Sakina Bharmal to the team!
We here at the STaR Centre are very fortunate to have had Sakina Bharmal recently join our team, where she is now based in the Surgical Trials Unit as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Sakina has a background in Microbiology, having previously obtained a Bachelors and Masters...
$5M HRC programme grant awarded to Professors Windsor, Phillips and team
We are pleased to announce that new devices and drugs to prevent organ failure in critically ill patients will be the target of a $5 million programme grant awarded to STaR Centre researchers by the Health Research Council (HRC) of New Zealand. This 5 year HRC...
New PEI and PERT course
A new course was launched last week on pancreatic exocrine insufficiency (PEI) and pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT), through the Surgical and Translational Research Centre at the University of Auckland. It was timely as dietitians can now prescribe enzyme...
Virtual Visiting Professorship In South Africa
This week Professor John Windsor provided a critical review of research projects at a symposium in the Department of Surgery at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Masters and doctoral students, from both Science and Medicine, are making significant...
NBR – Alimetry’s CE Mark milestone for new diagnostic tool for functional stomach disorders
A/Prof Greg O’Grady, STaR Centre Director of the Surgical Engineering Lab, and his Medtech startup Alimetry team have something new to celebrate – Alimetry has met its CE Mark milestone for their wearable sensor that measures electrical activity in the gut to help better understand and diagnose gastric dysfunction.
Alimetry – finalists: 2021 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards
Alimetry – a University of Auckland spinout company has been named as a finalist in three categories in the 2021 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards.
Collaborating with the Augmented Human Lab
STaR Centre is growing our networks and our new collaborators based in Auckland Bioengineering Institute are changing the world with a vision to Humanize the Technology. The Augmented Human Lab led by Associate Professor Suranga Nanayakkara is a team of...
STaR Centre and MIPS Clinicians and Scientists retool weight-loss drug for lifesaving treatments
``...although our intensive care doctors are highly skilled at supporting these organs, there is still no effective drug treatment to prevent or reduce the severity of organ failure.” Professor John Windsor Orlistat, marketed in New Zealand as Xenical, can be retooled...