Awards

Nipuni Nagahawatte

• ABI Best Published Paper in 2023 

Leo Cheng

• ABI Excellence in Graduate Supervision
  

• Velocity Ideas Challenge - Medtech-iQ Tāmaki Makaurau prize

Savindi Wijenayaka

• 2023 Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand Presenter

Omkar Athavale

• Student Paper Competition Open Finalist, EMBC Conference 2023, Sydney, Australia
  

Peng Du 

• University of Auckland Research Impact Award

Omkar Athavale

• Honourable mention at the World Congress of Biomechanics 2022
• 3rd place “Quilted Tutorials” SPARC FAIR Codeathon Showcase 2022

Savindi Wijenayaka

• Grand Prize, “SPARC Metadata Editor”

Kiara Miller

• Velocity Innovation Challenge winner 2022

Nipuni Nagahawatte

• Velocity Innovation Challenge winner 2022
   

Sachira Kuruppu

• 2021 SPARC Fair Codeathon – SPARClink
• 2021 Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand Presenter

Nipuni Nagahawatte

• People's choice award for best poster, MedTech CoRE Conference 2021

Zahra Aghababaie

• Young Investigator Award, NZ Society of Gastroenterology
  
• Runner-up, Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, Auckland Bioengineering Institute Research Forum

Jamie Lara

• 2021 Falling Walls Lab Aotearoa New Zealand Presenter

Ashley Cherian Abraham

• Fowlds Memorial Prize, the best masters thesis at Auckland Bioengineering Institute in 2018.

Peng Du

• Prime Minister’s MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize

Jamie Lara

• Best Student Presentation, International Research Training Group on Soft Tissue Robotics.
   

Tim Angeli

• Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Royal Society of New Zealand.

Saeed Alighaleh

• Robert Stern Award Winner (Best Young Investigator), iGES Sociey Annual Meeting, Washington DC, USA.
   

Tim Angeli

• Edith C. Coan Postdoctoral Fellow, Auckland Medical Research Foundation.
• Early Career Research Excellence Award, University of Auckland.

Leo Cheng, Greg O'Grady, Peng Du, Tim Angeli, Niranchan Paskaranandavadivel & Shameer Sathar

• Vice Chancellor's Research Excellence Award, University of Auckland.

Tim Angeli

• Young Investigator Award for Best Poster Presentation, American Gastroenterological Association, Digestive Disease Week Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.

Suseela Somarajan

• Young Investigator Award for Best Poster Presentation, American Gastroenterological Association, Digestive Disease Week Conference, San Diego, CA, USA.
   

Tim Angeli

• Best Luminal Paper/Presentation, NZ Society of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting, Rotorua.

Leo Cheng

• Humboldt Research Awardee, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Peng Du

• Rutherford Discovery Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Alvarez Award (Best overall abstract), iGES Society Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
   

Niranchan Paskaranandavadivel

• Robert Stern Award Winner (Best Young Investigator), iGES Sociey Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
   

Peng Du

• Early Career Research Excellence Award, University of Auckland

Tim Angeli

• Distinguished Young Investigator Award, 17th Neurogastroenterology & Motility Scientific Meeting, Huntington Beach, CA.

Jerry Gao

• RHT Bates Postgraduate Scholarship, Royal Society of New Zealand.

Shameer Sathar

• Young Investigators Award, 15th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Singapore.
   

Tim Angeli

• RHT Bates Postgraduate Scholarship, Royal Society of New Zealand.

Peng Du

• Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Vice Chancellor's Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis, University of Auckland.

Jerry Gao

• Freemason's Postgraduate Scholarship, New Zealand.
• Young Investigator Award, International Electrogastrography Society Workshop, San Diego, CA.

Greg O'Grady

• Top Publication, School of Medicine Annual Doctoral Showcase, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland.
• Best Published Paper, New Zealand Society for Gastroenterology.

Niranchan Paskaranandavadivel

• Best Presentation award, Riddet Centre of Research Excellence Annual Scientific Meeting, New Zealand.
   

Tim Angeli

• Exposure Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Oral Presentation.
• 1st Prize, Exposure 2011, University of Auckland.
• Best Presentation award, Riddet Centre of Research Excellence Annual Scientific Meeting, New Zealand.
• Baxter Healthcare Young Investigator Award for Luminal Research, NZ Society of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting, Dunedin.

Jerry Gao

• Poster of Distinction, DDW conference, Chicago.

Rachel Lees-Green

• AGA-Horizon Pharma Student Abstract Prize, DDW conference, Chicago.

Greg O'Grady

• AGA Masters in Gastroenterology Award, American Gastroenterology Association.
• Poster of Distinction, DDW conference, Chicago.

Niranchan Paskaranandavadivel

• Exposure Live/Multimedia Performance.
• 3rd Prize, Exposure 2011, University of Auckland.
   

Tim Angeli

• First place, Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering category, Engineering Postgraduate Society poster competition.

Peng Du

• John Carmen Prize for the Best Biomedical Engineering talk, MedSci conference, Queenstown.

Greg O’Grady

• Young Investigator Clinical Grant Award, American Neurogastroenterology & Motility Society (ANMS) conference.
• Baxter Young Investigator Award, NZGS conference, Auckland.

The G.I. Joes

• First place, the SPARK Ideas Challenge and i-Volve award for the best biotechnological idea.
• The SPARK 100K Qualifiers Challenge.
• Third place in the SPARK 100K Challenge Finals.
   

Peng Du

• First Place Student Paper Competition Winner & Geographic Finalist, Asia Pacific, EMBC conference, Minneapolis, MN.

Greg O'Grady

• Young Investigator Award and Best Abstract Award, NGM conference, Chicago, IL.
• Ferring Young Investigator Award, NZGS conference, Wellington.
   

Peng Du

• AGA Abstract of Distinction, DDW conference, San Diego.
   

Rita Yassi

• Second place, Faculty of Engineering and First place, Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering category, Vector poster competition.
   

Anita Lin

• First place, Faculty of Engineering, BECA Postgraduate Poster Competition.
   

Leo Cheng

• AGA Distinguished Abstract Plenary Presentation, DDW conference, Chicago, IL.
   

Martin Buist

• AGA Distinguished Abstract Plenary Presentation, DDW conference, Orlando, FL.