Congratulations to our staff on their grant success.
Auckland Medical Research Foundation/AMRF Kelliher Charitable Trust
Dr Peter Freestone, Physiology
Illuminating Parkinson’s disease through optogenetic mapping of the subthalamic nucleus
$30,000
Auckland Medical Research Foundation/AMRF Project
Dr Veronika Sander, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Using organoids to model genetic kidney disease and develop new drugs
$128,045
Associate Professor Christopher Hall, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Understanding how the immune system uses a molecular timer to anticipate, and fight, infections. $157,608
Associate Professor Deborah Young, Pharmacology
Use of a novel gene switch to refine the application of gene therapy for Huntington’s disease
$158,550
Dr Petr Tomek, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Inhibiting tryptohan catabolism for cancer immunotherapy
$159,056
Dr Cherie Blenkiron, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
EV-chip device to detect melanoma therapy response
$159,937
Grifols Scientific Awards/ALTA Award
Dr Randall D’Souza, Nutrition
Can Alpha-1-Antitrypsin prevent the transition of non-alcoholic fatty liver to non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in mice
$89,000
Health Research Council/Consolidator Grant
Dr Angus Grey, Physiology
Spatial oculomics with imaging mass spectrometry for drug delivery
$599,016
Health Research Council/HRC Emerging Researcher First Grant
Professor Michael Dragunow, Pharmacology
Amy Smith – HRC ERFG – Studying the combined role of CNS and peripheral immune systems in early dementia
$245,745
Health Research Council/HRC Explorer Grant
Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles, Department of Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Sewers of Superbug Surveillance
$150,000
Dr Benjamin Lawrence, Oncology
A collaborative AR work and presentation tool to examine tumour evolution
$150,000
Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust/MPPT Project Grant
Dr Erika Freemantle, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
Modelling the Neurovascular unit in Parkinson’s disease: Mechanism for Alpha synuclein transport in EVs and aggregate accumulation
$142,287
Dr Susan McGlashan, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
Does tissue stiffness drive osteoarthritis progression
$198,40
Dr Marie-Louise Ward, Physiology
Atrial myocyte structure and function from diabetic and non-diabetic patients
$19,974
Dr Andrew Thompson, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Centre Novel pretomanid-based antibiotics as nanoparticle payloads targeting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis
$19,980
Dr Waruni Dissanayake, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Role for shank3 in insulin secretion and development of type-2 diabetes Acceptance and budget uploaded on DMS – AC, 18/05
$20,037
Dr Emma Buckels, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
The influence of the pancreatic hormone preptin, on the skeleton in diet-induced obesity $20,648
Dr Andrea Kwakowsky, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
Neuroinflammation in the Human Cingulate Cortex in Huntington’s Disease
$34,272
Dr Amy McCaughey-Chapman, Pharmacology
Generating human oligodendrocyte precursor cells from adult human dermal fibroblasts for the treatment of spinal cord injury
$38,732
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment/MBIE COVID-19 Innovation
Dr Nikki Moreland, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Development, assessment and roll-out of antibody-based assays for COVID-19
$461,987
Neurological Foundation/NF Project Grant
Associate Professor Deborah Young, Pharmacology
Use of a novel gene switch to refine the application of gene therapy for Huntington’s disease
$160,743
Dr Scott Graham, Euan S, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
Identification of adhesion molecules metastatic melanoma uses to invade across the brain endothelium
$14,911
The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation/The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation
Nicholas Knowlton, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
BCF National Register Analysis Part I
$59,916
Dr Nicholas Knowlton, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
BCF National Register Analysis Part II
$90,695