Medical research - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 15 Nov 2021 03:35:54 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Medical research - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Research into growing tissue for organ transplants gets major funding https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/11/15/research-organ-transplant/ Mon, 15 Nov 2021 06:52:52 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=142399 Overcoming the barriers of engineering living tissues in a lab and growing organs to alleviate the world's shortage of transplant organs is one step closer, after an Otago researcher was awarded a major fellowship today. University of Otago (Christchurch) Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine researcher Dr Khoon Lim has been awarded a Rutherford Read more

Research into growing tissue for organ transplants gets major funding... Read more]]> Overcoming the barriers of engineering living tissues in a lab and growing organs to alleviate the world's shortage of transplant organs is one step closer, after an Otago researcher was awarded a major fellowship today.

University of Otago (Christchurch) Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Medicine researcher Dr Khoon Lim has been awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship by the Royal Society Te Aparangi, to advance our ability to eventually grow replacement human organs.

‘‘In Aotearoa, the waiting time for an organ donor is often between four and 30 months, and many people suffer complications or die before a donation becomes available,'' he said. Read more

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