Grants Awarded
A huge congratulations to those awarded grants in August.
American Society for Bone and Mineral Research/Rising Star Award
Brya Matthews, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘Rising Star Application’ $82,790
Auckland Medical Research Foundation/AMRF Project
Susann Beier,
‘Anatomy and Medical Imaging Coronary Flow Atlas for Improvement of Stenting Outcome’- $153,456
Mhoyra Fraser, Physiology
‘Exploiting brain mechanisms to protect from preterm brain injury?’ – $159,263
Jian Guan, Pharmacology
‘Clinical evaluations of a novel biomarker for insulin-like growth factor-1 associated cognitive function in Parkinson disease’ – $159,294
Himani Ranasinghe, Physiology
‘A novel role for the extracellular matrix sugar hyaluronan matrix in neonatal seizure induction following hypoxia-ischemia to the developing brain’ – $113,745
Nicole Moreland, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘Immune priming: Is it a major driver for rheumatic fever?’ – $160,000
Troy Merry, Nutrition
‘Understanding how the CREBRF variant affects BMI and type 2 diabetes risk’ – $159,266
CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust/CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust
Simon OCarroll, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘Modulation of chronic inflammation for treatment of spinal cord injury’ – $98,660
Cure Kids/Hugh Green Foundation
Annika Winbo, Physiology
‘Joining of hearts and minds to address the cellular basis of Long QT Syndrome – modelling a sympathetically triggered disorder in cardiomyoocytes derived from patient-inducted pluripotent stem cells’ – $156,000
National Heart Foundation/NHF Research Fellowship
Susann Beier, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘Coronary artery flow atlas to optimize stenting’ – $225,000
National Heart Foundation/NHF Postgraduate Scholarships
Marie-Louise Ward, Physiology
‘Investigation into the cellular mechanisms of arrhythmogenesis in the heart’ -$78,000
Neurological Foundation/NF Project Grant
Maurice Curtis, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘The Neurological Foundation Douglas Human Brain Bank’ – $159,564
Justin Dean, Physiology
‘A novel role for the extracellular matrix sugar hyaluronan in induction of neonatal seizures following hypoxia-ischemia’ – $113,745
Richard Faull, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘The Neurological Foundation of New Zealand Human Brain Bank’ – $130,000
Richard Faull, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘Neurological Foundation Human Brainbank’ – $260,000
Alistair Gunn, Physiology
‘What is the optimal rate of cerebral rewarming after therapeutic hypothermia for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy?’ – $166,930
Neurological Foundation/NF Small Project
Marta Tarczyluk-Wells, Pharmacology
‘Modelling early Alzheimer’s disease: cholinergic neurons from induced neuronal progenitors’ – $11,922
Natacha Wallant,, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘Elucidating the function of brain immune cells in malignant brain tumours: a novel in vitro approach’ $12,000
School of Medicine Foundation/School of Medicine Foundation Project
Cristin Print, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioinformatics’ – $250,000
Nicole Moreland, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘Establishing a Validated Assay Platform to test new Vaccines for Group A Streptococcus in New Zealand’ – $300,000
The University of Auckland – FMHS/The University of Auckland – FMHS FRDF General
Kathryn Burns, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘The Role of Drug Transporters in 5-Fluorouracil Uptake’- $12,018
Jack Flanagan, Auckland Cancer Research
‘Branching out in kinase small molecule science’ -$125,000
Joanne Davidson, Physiology
‘Can Tonabersat prevent seizures and brain damage after perinatal hypoxia-ischaemia?’ -$125,000
Peter Freestone, Physiology
‘Building a computational model of synaptic transmission in the basal ganglia to characterize novel modulatory action of endocannabinoids’ – $15,861
Stephen Jamieson, Pharmacology
‘Whole genome CRISPR/Cas9 screens to identify genes that modulate tolerance to tumour microenvironment stress’ -$168,000
Sue McGlashan, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
‘The Obese Osteoarthritic Phenotype: Characterisation of osteoarthritic cartilage from normal weight and obese patients’-$167,142
Julie Spicer, Auckland Cancer Research
‘A fragment-based drug design approach to the discovery of perforin inhibitors’ – $164202
Simon Swift, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘Rapid testing for antibiotic sensitivity’ – $125,000
The University of Auckland/Strategic Research Initiative Fund- The Food and Health Programme
Andrea Braakhuis, Nutrition
‘The effect of COMVITA olive leaf extract on aerobic fitness and markers of cardiac capacity in humans’- $10,000
Vanderbilt University/NIH Subaward
Paul Donaldson, School of Medical Sciences
‘The Role of Aquaporin-0 in Lens Development and Agin’ – $75,000