Funded Summer Studentships 2007/2008
These Studentships provide $4,000 to individual students to train during the summer break
with a research team relevant to the CMRF objectives. Studentships are available to
students from host universities carried out under the University of Otago, Christchurch and
University of Canterbury Summer Studentship programme. Duration is usually 10 weeks.
CMRF also provide a prize of $250 for the best Scientific Summer Studentship Presentation.
The cheque and certificate are presented each year at the CMRF Annual General Meeting
Photo shows Professor Robin Fraser with the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation Sponsored Students at the Studentship Presentations held at the Rolleston Lecture Theatre 14th December 2007
CMRF Funded Summer Students for summer of 2007/08
Liisa Stone
"Arm and Eye Movements in Parkinson’s disease: are trajectories different from controls"
Heng-Teck Chong
"Influence of catheter diameter on measurement of resting and deglutitive manometric pressures at the upper oesophageal sphincter"
Patrick Kerr
"Depression, Romantic Relationships and Therapy"
Rao Fu
"Do mutations in the CFTR affect bacterial killing and protein chlorination by neutrophils"?
Georgina Chisolm
"Tight glycaemic control and drug therapy interactions: is tight control affected by drug choices"?
Jacqui Walker
Australian and New Zealand requirements for oxygen supplementation during air travel in passengers with pulmonary disease"?
Helen Abbott
"Reactions of superoxide with protein radicals"
Kelly Tarrant:
"Stability of IBD phenotype in population-based IBD cohort"
Geraldine Campbell
"Audit of in-hospital management of patients with acute myocardial infarction"
Don Ponnamperuma
"Diabetic Kidney Disease: Structure function correlations in experimental diabetic nephropathy"
Congratulations to Georgina Chisholm who was awarded the
"Best Scientific Summer Studentship Presentation 2007/08"
