John Hubbard Memorial Prize

For Excellence in Studies towards a PhD

The prize was first awarded in 1997. The prize will be advertised annually a few months before the Society's Annual Meeting. Applicants must be in at least their second year (or equivalent) of full-time PhD study at a Tertiary Institution in New Zealand and no more than one year should have elapsed since the PhD was conferred.

2011 Winner - Rachel Cheong

The winner this year is Rachel Cheong for her work in neuroendocrinology. Please see the newsletter for more details.

Previous Recipients

2010 Isuru Jayasinghe, Dept of Physiology, University of Auckland - Resolving the structural basis of cardiac excitation-coupling
2009 Rosemary Brown, Dept of Anatomy and Structural Biology and Dept of Physiology, University of Otago - Mechanism of hyperprolactinaemia-induced infertility
2008 Karen Peebles (Co-winner), Department of Physiology, University of Otago - Changes in cerebral vasoactive factors during acute alterations in arterial blood gases in humans.
2008 Lindsea Booth (Co-winner), Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Renal sympathetic nerve actiivity in the preterm fetus.
2007 Jenny Clarkson, Department of Physiology, University of Otago - Kisspeptin activation of GnRH neurons at puberty
2006 Natalie Harfoot, Department of Physiology, University of Otago – The Expression of Secretory NBC and CFTR in the Ileal Epithelium of the Australian Common Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus vulpecula)
2005 Kevin Webb, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland – Membrane Properties of Differentiating Fiber Cells in the Rat Lens
2004 Robert S. Kirton, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Does Strain Soften the Heart?
2004 Adèle J Pope, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Ventricular Remodelling as a Mechanism for Heart Failure
2002 Gareth B Miles, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Differential Expression during Postnatal Development of Voltage-Activated Calcium Channels in Functionally Distinct Motoneurons Controlling Airway and Extraocular Muscles
2000 Bridget L Leonard, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland - Sympathetic Neural Control of Intrarenal Blood Flow
1999 Fayez Hammad, Department of Physiology, University of Otago -- The Role of Endothelins in Cold Ischaemia -- Reperfusion Injury in Renal Transplantation
1997 Refik Kanjhan, Department of Physiology, University of Auckland -- The Conundrum of P2X2R Expression in the CNS.