Rate My Professor Te-Rina King-Hudson

Te-Rina King-Hudson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Pathology and Biomedical Science at the University of Otago, Christchurch. She holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD from the University of Canterbury, where her doctoral research focused on the redox protein peroxiredoxin-2 in red blood cells and applications of a novel point-of-care test. She serves as Kaitohutohu Ahurea, or cultural advisor, for Mātai Hāora – the Centre for Redox Biology and Medicine, supporting research efforts to address health inequities faced by Māori.

King-Hudson's research investigates the role of oxidative and mitochondrial stress in human ageing, utilizing data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study and the Canterbury Health, Ageing and Life Course (CHALICE) study. Her key publications include "Biomarkers of oxidative and mitochondrial stress are associated with accelerated pace of aging at midlife in a birth cohort" (Journals of Gerontology Series A, 2025), "On the function of TRAP substrate-binding proteins: Conformational variation of the sialic acid binding protein SiaP" (Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2024), "Peroxiredoxins as markers of redox homeostasis in studies of human ageing" (Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 2023), and "Consulting with Māori during development of a point-of-care device: Translational and experiential findings" (New Zealand Science Review, 2022). She presented "Peroxiredoxins as biomarkers of redox response in human and cellular ageing" at the University of Otago Christchurch Biomedical Research Seminar Series in June 2024. In 2023, she received a $10,000 Māori Health Development Grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand for co-designing a kaupapa Māori research project on ageing biomarkers.