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Supporting future innovators, researchers

Mātai News Supporting future innovators, researchers The Gisborne Herald, 15 April 2021 Former Gisborne Girls’ High School student Jade Keelan is the recipient of Matai Research’s scholarship while ex-Campion College student Sophie Hawthorne has been granted a Pultron-Matai scholarship. Two young Gisborne women are the first recipients of tertiary scholarships from medical imaging centre Matai Research. Former Gisborne Girls’ High…

State of the art MRI machine one step closer for Gisborne

Mātai News State of the art MRI machine one step closer for Gisborne The Gisborne Herald, 7 August 2020 A space capsule-sized, cylindrical magnet that will have 100,000 times the strength of Earth’s magnetic field once ramped up is lowered into Matai Research’s module. Image – Liam Clayton. A space capsule-sized, cylindrical magnet that will have 100,000 times the strength…

Dr Samantha Holdsworth returns home to start world-leading medical centre

Mātai News Dr Samantha Holdsworth returns home to start world-leading medical centre NZ Herald, 5 September 2020 Read original article After 25 years away, Samantha Holdsworth, has returned to the land of her childhood to establish a world-leading medical imaging research centre called Mātai, writes the centre’s Jeanette Lepper. Dr Samantha Holdsworth grew up in the small town of Te…

Delving deeper into brain injury and heart disease

Mātai News Delving deeper into brain injury and heart disease Te Kuru o te Marama Dewes, 16 August 2019 Read original article here A multi-million dollar medical imaging research and innovation centre is being built in Gisborne to advance understanding of the brain, heart, and body in order to improve health outcomes for the community. A multi-million dollar medical imaging research and…

Mātai- the research centre in the middle nowhere, but has pathways to everywhere

Mātai News Mātai- the research centre in the middle nowhere, but has pathways to everywhere Stuff, Georgia-May Gilbertson, 30 June 2018 A town on the east coast of New Zealand is possibly one of the last places you’d expect to find a medical research facility set to change the lives of many. Mātai, a seven-month-old, non-profit research facility, is based…

A journey of brain science and discovery

Mātai News A journey of brain science and discovery The Gisborne Herald, Mark Peters, 18 March 2018 At an International Women’s Day lunch this week, Gisborne-based Matai Research medical imaging centre chief executive and research director Samantha Holdsworth talked about her career path. After more than 10 years in research at California’s Stanford University, medical physicist Samantha Holdsworth realised she…

Forefront of brain, heart research

Mātai News Forefront of brain, heart research The Gisborne Herald, Mark Peters, 11 July 2018 A state-of-the-art medical imaging research centre that focuses on mild traumatic brain injury and heart disease could make Gisborne a world-leading centre in MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). A state-of-the-art medical imaging research centre that focuses on mild traumatic brain injury and heart disease could make…

The Beating Brain

Mātai News The beating brain Stanford Medicine, Bruce Goldman, 5 July 2018 Read original article A video captures the organ’s rhythmic pulsations Here you were, figuring your brain just sits still inside your head purring like a kitten in grandma’s lap, and along comes science and catches this “most complicated object in the known universe” in the act of jerking…