Congratulations to staff who have been awarded grants.
HRC
HRC programme
Prof Peter Shepherd, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
‘Understanding genetic risk factors for metabolic disease in Māori and Pacific’
$4,999,203
HRC project
Assoc Prof Mhoyra Fraser, Physiology
‘New horizons for preterm brain protection: exploiting endogenous neuroprotection’
$1,187,296
Dr Rohit Ramchandra, Physiology
‘P2x3 receptor targeting in hypertension: a large animal pre-clinical trial’
$1,187,099
Dr David Crossman, Physiology
‘Nanoscale fibrosis and loss of contractility in the failing human heart’
$1,182,220
Assoc Prof Adam Patterson, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
‘Banishing tumour hypoxia to render cancer immunotherapy curative’
$1,197,122
Prof Mark McKeage, Pharmacology
‘Reducing Oxaliplatin Toxicity: A Randomised Dose-Finding Proof-of-Concept Trial’
$1,195,454
HRC Clinical Training Fellowship
Dr Veronica Playle, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
‘Using whole genome sequencing to understand the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis in NZ’
$256,126
MARSDEN
RSNZ Marsden
Prof Julian Paton, Physiology
‘The Forgotten Circulation’
$960,000
Assoc Prof Alan Davidson, Molecular Medicine & Pathology
‘Re-defining the origin of the embryonic kidney’
$934,000
Assoc Prof Johanna Montgomery, Physiology
‘From big brains to little brains: what is the role of plasticity in the little brains of the heart?’
$955,000
AMRF Project
Dr Julie Lim, Physiology
‘Inter-tissue cross talk between the lens and vitreous humor’
$158,981
Dr Barbara Lipert, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
‘CYREN, a novel modulator of DNA double-strand break repair as a prognostic marker in cancer immunotherapy’
$156,091
AMRF fellowship
Dr Molly Abraham, Medical Sciences
‘The role of hyaluonan in hippocampal neuron development’
$87,000
AMRF doctoral scholarship
Dr Zoe Woolf, Pharmacology
‘Deciphering the role of two macrophage-like populations in high grade glioma’
$128,000
MPPT equipment grants
Dr Andrea Kwakowsky, Anatomy and medical imaging
‘In vivo fiber photometry system for monitoring neuronal activity in freely moving rodents’
$14,000
Dr Troy Merry, Nutrition
Maurice Phyllis Paykel Trust Share Equipment Application: Metabolic cages
$13,000
Dr Rachel Taylor, Physiology
‘Technology Platform for Human Vestibular Research’
$14,000
MPPT Projects Grants
Dr Andrew Thompson, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
‘New generation analogues of the tuberculosis drug pretomanid for particle-based drug delivery’
$14,000
Dr Marjan Askarian-Amiri, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
‘Regulation of the stem cell marker SOX2 by SOX20T transcript I breast cancer’
$10,000
Dr Scott Graham, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
‘Identification of cell adhesion molecules expressed by metastatic melanoma cells that are potentially involved in migration across the brain endothelium’
$13,000
Dr Tao Wang, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
‘Sustained drug release and bactericidal activity of antimicrobial polymer-based nanofibers for open fracture’
$10,000
NATIONAL HEART FOUNDATION
National heart foundation project
Dr Reuben McGregor, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
‘Understanding Immunity to Streptococcus A Infections in New Zealand Children’
$19,850