our team
professor jillian cornish
chief scientific officer
Professor Cornish, CSO, leads our scientific program her expertise provides Biotanix Labs access to academic excellence in our flagship technology. Professor Cornish heads the Bone and Joint Research Laboratory in University of Auckland, New Zealand and held a visiting professorship with University of Oxford, UK. Her New Zealand team investigate factors that are anabolic to bone, cartilage and tendon cells for which they hold international patents.
She has attracted numerous national and international collaborators as well as funding. In 2019, Dr Cornish initiated a collaboration with Orthopaedic Engineers in University of Utah being awarded a USA Department of Defence grant to study biofilm implant-related infections.
She has received many prestigious awards and has served on editorial boards and councils of the International Bone and Mineral Society, International Society of Bone Morphometry, Osteoporosis New Zealand and is a past-president of Australia and New Zealand Bone and Mineral Society.
dr haemish crawford
chief medical officer (orthopaedics)
Mr Haemish Crawford, FRACS, CMO (Orthopaedics) advises Biotanix Labs' medical device product applications in clinical settings. Haemish brings invaluable clinical expertise, leading projects contributing to study design and result assessment.
He has specialised in hip arthroscopy since 1999 and has helped pioneer this procedure in New Zealand. He has presented papers at conferences on the technique and is very active in continuing research in both clinical outcomes of this procedure and basic science.
Dr Crawford is a ‘cradle to grave’ hip surgeon who has a paediatric orthopaedic position at the Starship Children’s Hospital and performs his adult arthroscopy and joint replacement surgery at the MercyAscot hospital in Auckland. He has post graduate fellowship training in sports surgery and joint replacement and revision surgery from the University of Western Ontario, Canada (1997- 1998) and paediatric surgery at the University of Iowa, USA (1998 – 1999).