Dr Pauline Norris and Dr Simon Horsburgh
Who gets what, when and from where? It may seem like a simple question, but applying it to prescription medicines for around 32,000 people is no simple task.
Dr Margaret Vissers
Vitamin C has long been known to help prevent scurvy and is often used as a remedy for colds, but ground-breaking Otago research has shown that this vitamin plays an even more important role in maintaining good health.
Dr Janet Stephenson and Professor Gerry Carrington
Professor Gerry Carrington and Dr Janet Stephenson, together with a host of other researchers at the University of Otago and nationwide, are part of a group that is serious about helping New Zealand to shift to a sustainable energy path.
Dr Peter Walker and associate Professor Pat Shannon
New Zealand is groaning under the burden of its social ills, but Associate Professor Pat Shannon (Department of Social Work and Community Development) says it's become abundantly clear the answer does not lie with agendas and solutions imposed by bureaucrats in Wellington.
Dr Miles Lamare
Increased UV radiation due to depletion of the ozone layer is known to have harmful affects on human beings. It seems it is also a factor for the Antarctic sea urchin sterechinus neumayeri.
Dr Miles Lamare, of Otago's Department of Marine Science, says the larval stages of marine invertebrates such as sea urchins are crucial to the ecosystem of the Antarctic.
The future is looking brighter and better for small screen technology used in mobile phones, digital cameras and personal media devices, thanks to ground-breaking research at the University of Otago Department of Chemistry.
Many New Zealand men are suffering harmful effects from the legacy of their cultural pasts, according to a new book by University of Otago Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Humanities) Professor Alistair Fox.
Ongoing research at the University of Otago, Wellington, has shown that health disparities in New Zealand are no longer widening and are, in some cases, improving.
For 200 years marketing practice has been dominated by the movement and exchange of goods - but a radical shift in thinking, fostered in art by University of Otago School of Business research staff, is putting service right at the centre in understanding the nature of business activity.
Pax2 - a gene the body is supposed to switch off after foetal development - has been identified by University of Otago researchers as playing an important part in polycystic kidney disease (PKD), one of the most common genetic diseases known.
Saviour siblings, designer babies, "warrior genes", genetic manipulation - there is no shortage of emotive terms in the lexicon that has developed around recent rapid advances in knowledge about the human genome.
How good are you at reading faces, that precious social skill of recognising the emotions of others by subtle changes in facial expressions? Recent studies by Otago's Psychology researchers suggest this skill declines with age.
Imagine learning a major role in a Shakespearean play and committing it to memory in four weeks flat.
It's official. Breastfeeding can raise a baby's IQ - but only if an infant has a particular version of a particular gene. And the good news is that the majority of babies carry this version.
Contrary to received wisdom, boredom can be a productive midwife. It certainly was for leading marine chemist Professor Keith Hunter, the recipient of the 2007 University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal.
Most responsible parents would be horrified if they realised how incorrectly-fitted child restraints could expose their children to the risk of serious injury, or even death, in a motor-vehicle crash.
Dr Charles Pigden is perhaps unique. He is the only philosopher he knows of to have published a research paper in blank verse.
The principles of kaitiakitanga (guardianship) of our environment have been around for centuries, but the formation of a nationwide collective of researchers from a wide range of disciplines, working in partnership with Mäori, is an innovative cross-cultural approach to conservation.
With evidence showing that about one third of all deaths worldwide are still caused by infectious diseases, scientists at the University of Otago are not taking this threat lying down.
Professor Rick Sibson says Christchurch Cathedral is advancing towards the Haast pub at the rate of about 40 mm a year, with the crust in-between faulting, crumpling and shortening to give us the Southern Alps.