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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…

$6m for new Gisborne MRI research lab targeting concussion, heart disease

Mātai News $6m for new Gisborne MRI research lab targeting concussion, heart disease University of Auckland, 11 July 2018 Read original article The Government’s Provincial Growth Fund has awarded $6 million to develop Mātai, a not-for-profit medical imaging research and innovation centre in Tairāwhiti Gisborne. A core focus of the centre’s research will be traumatic brain injury (TBI), including concussion,…

New MRI method highlights the moving brain

Mātai News New MRI method highlights the moving brain University of Auckland, 30 May 2018 Read original article A new type of MRI method that shows clearer images of brain movement has the potential to help diagnose diseases earlier. Amplified MRI (aMRI) was developed by University of Auckland academic Dr Samantha Holdsworth and her team. The results have just been…