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Alzheimer’s Awareness

The annual ‘Forget Me Not‘ appeal by Alzheimer’s New Zealand ran from 26 July to 1 Aug, 2009. To coincide with this, the Institute highlighted its current research into functional, structural, and cerebral bloodflow MR imaging in Alzheimer’s.

Sarah Wright’s PhD project was covered in local station CTV’s ‘Today in Canterbury’ News on 30th July:

The project was also covered in the Christchurch ‘Press’ here; in brief in the New Zealand Herald, Dominion Post, Otago Daily Times, and Gisborne Herald; and in a national radio interview with Larry Williams on NewsTalkZB.

Open Day, Sunday 17 Aug 2008

The University of Otago and the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation combine annually for a Health Research Open Day

The public is welcome to come along to the medical school building (on the corner of Riccarton Ave/Oxford Tce, parking available in the blue Christchurch Hospital parking building on Antigua St). There are research displays in the foyer, public lectures and a chance to see inside Mobile Medical Technology’s large surgical bus, the only mobile surgery in NZ.

There are also tours tours to laboratories and research facilities. This includes the fascinating (and at times, gruesome) Pathology Museum and a chance to see the world-leading Cardioendocrine lab.

The Van der Veer Institute is also taking part, and people can tour our eye movement and swallowing labs and the MR brain imaging facilities.