News Highlights
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...
Spin-out Elbaware on Seven Sharp
"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes This is what happened when clinicians, engineers and scientists came together, motivated to address a common problem made visible by the Covid-19...
Honorary Life Membership: Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Council
In July 2020, the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland Council (ACPGBI) awarded Honorary Life Membership to Professor Ian Bissett. Congratulations! This award recognises Prof. Bissett’s achievements and international reputation as a world-class...
Meet our STaRs: Tim Angeli, PhD, a biomedical engineer
A centre focused on surgical disease does not mean we are centre of clinicians alone. We are lucky to collaborate with a talented and diverse group of people. Tim Angeli is a Rutherford Discovery Fellow and Senior Research Fellow with the Gastrointestinal (GI)...
Elbaware – STaR Spinout demonstrates MedTech in action
STaR Centre directors Prof. John Winsor, Anthony Phillips and lead Engineer Bruce Stokes have developed an innovative solution, adding to the suite of personal protective equipment (PPE) in the fight against SARS-CoV-19 (Covid-19). Their spin out company Elbaware has...