Brain building interns

Mātai News Brain building interns The Gisborne Herald, 12 December 2021 This summer seven university students are enjoying the chance to be involved in cutting edge projects as summer interns with the Gisborne-based Matai Medical Research Institute. Andrew Ashton spoke to some of those involved about what they will be getting up to…

Summer of learning

Mātai News A summer of learning The Gisborne Herald, 7 December 2021 Seven university students are enjoying the chance to be involved in cutting edge projects as summer interns with the Gisborne-based Matai Medical Research Institute. While at Matai they will learn how to produce and work with MRI data.They will also have the opportunity to experience a range of…

Helping young scholars reach their full potential

Mātai News Helping young scholars reach their full potential The Gisborne Herald, 23 November 2021 Mātai Scholarship recipients Paige Richter of Lytton High School, Jackson Clarke, Olly Cranefield and Rikki Noble of Gisborne Boys’ High School. Gisborne medical imaging research and innovation centre Mātai has announced recipients of two scholarship programmes…

A Night in the ER

Mātai News A Night in the ER’ up for a ‘Minnie’ award The Gisborne Herald, 15 November 2021 “A Night in the ER” has the ring of any number of popular medical television dramas. But it is the name of a teaching file in an app developed by Matāi Medical Research Institute clinical lead Dr Daniel Cornfeld which has gained…

Vision to reality

Mātai News Vision to reality The Gisborne Herald, 24 September 2022 Gisborne will be home to one of the nation’s “pre-eminent research centres” under ambitious new plans from Mātai Medical Research Institute Trust. Trust chairman John Pittar today confirmed Mātai had bought the Gisborne Holdings Ltd (GHL) Childers Road site to develop a campus supporting medical imaging research, medical sciences, and…

$17k scholarship opens doors to dream for Gisborne student

Mātai News $17k scholarship opens doors to dream for Gisborne student The Gisborne Herald, 11 November 2021 A GISBORNE student has won a $17,000 scholarship to help pursue her dream to major in pharmacology. “Receiving a Māori entrance scholarship from Otago University is quite special to me,” said Erana Hogarth, former deputy head girl at Lytton High. Getting the scholarship…

From 2D to 3D

Mātai News From 2D to 3D Mātai and The Stevens Institute of Technology, 6 May 2021 Watch video A newly enhanced imaging technique captures brain movement in stunning detail, holds potential to inform diagnosis of brain disorders Researchers from the Mātai Medical Research Institute, in New Zealand, and Stevens Institute of Technology — and others – report a new and…

An X-cellent X-perience

Mātai News An X-cellent X-perience The Gisborne Herald, 18 August 2021 Students had fun assembling a fully-functional robot as a part of an engineering workshop at Tonui Collab this week. The Project X workshop was a joint collaboration between Tonui Collab, Matai research centre and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The objective was to introduce intermediate school students to different…

Prostate cancer: ‘Game-changer’

Mātai News Prostate cancer: ‘Game-changer’ The Gisborne Herald, 6 September 2021 A Gisborne-based research company has developed a “game-changing” way to prevent men across New Zealand presenting with untreatable prostate cancer, and East Coast Maori could be the first to benefit. Matai Medical Research Institute’s new cancer diagnostic pathway project — Accuracy and Equity in Prostate Cancer Diagnosis — is…

Dementia: The Brains Trust, Episode 6: Mike Scott’s MRI scan

Mātai News Dementia: The Brains Trust, Episode 6: Mike Scott’s MRI scan NZ Herald, 8 March 2021 Read original article here Herald video journalist Mike Scott is not used to having the lens zoom in on his personal and painful story. As a little boy, he and his siblings, Chris and Angus, feared their father, who was violent and an…