Unlocking curious minds
Mātai News Unlocking curious minds The Gisborne Herald, 18 January 2022 Students here will be given the chance to understand how the brain works through a new science education project…
Mātai scholarship winner & Turanga FM interview
Mātai News Mātai scholarship winner & Turanga FM interview Turanga FM, 12 December 2021 “Anything is possible” Paige Richter, one of the 2022 Mātai scholarship recipients talks to Turanga FM about her upcoming journey – co-starring with Mātai research intern, Erana Hogarth.
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…