Massey researchers have been awarded for their work, at the International Continence Society Annual Meeting in the United States.
Three Massey University academics have been awarded at the International Continence Society (ICS) 48th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia in the United States.
Corrin Hulls and Professor Emeritus Roger Lentle, from the School of Health Sciences, alongside Dr Quinten King, consultant urologist from Palmerston North Hospital, and Associate Professor Paul Chambers from the School of Veterinary Science, were awarded Best in Category Research Methods/Techniques for their presentation on Spatiotemporal mapping of the bladder at the meeting this week.
Each year, the ICS acknowledges excellence in science by honouring the highest-scoring abstracts, as scored by the ICS Scientific Committee Members, external reviewers and scientific session chairs. Abstracts are judged on scientific merit, originality/topicality and clinical relevance.
The teams presentation, entitled “Novel spatiotemporal mapping allows new insight into the modality of myogenic micromotions in the ex-vivo tetrodotoxinised rabbit and pig bladder and their modulation with pharmaceutical agents”, describes an entirely new laboratory method for quantifying very small patterns of movement in the bladder wall that occur when the bladder is filling with urine, and the changes in these patterns when various drugs are added.
“These methods could be used for testing drugs for use in people with overactive bladder syndrome, a condition in which people suffer from an intermittent, sudden and urgent desire to urinate,” Professor Lentle says.
“This award is formal recognition of the potential importance of this new method in this respect, and could lead to better drugs for the many, mainly female, patients who are plagued with this disorder.”
The team were awarded almost $1000 (£500) at the annual dinner.
Professor Emeritus Roger Lentle from the School of Health Sciences.