Congratulations to Professor Peter Shepherd, Molecular Medicine and Pathology department who received the HRC grant of nearly $5 million for a 60-month study into understanding genetic risk factors for metabolic disease.
The programme will focus on using genetics to identify mechanisms contributing to increased metabolic disease risk in Māori and Pacific people. It is based on work originating from the Maurice Wilkins Centre and is in partnership with Ngati Porou Hauora and the Moko Foundation.
Congratulations to those who have been awarded 2018 University of Auckland Funded Projects
Dr David Crossman, Physiology
Nanoscale fibrosis and loss of contractility in the failing human heart
36 months, $1,182,220
Associate Professor Maurice Curtis, Anatomy and Medical Imaging
Identifying the first signs of dementia in humans
36 months, $891,792
Dr Joanne Davidson, Physiology
Look before we leap: strategies for treating mild neonatal encephalopathy
36 months, $1,185,478
Associate Professor Mhoyra Fraser, Physiology
New horizons for preterm brain protection: exploiting endogenous neuroprotection
36 months, $1,187,296
Professor Mark McKeage, Pharmacology
Reducing oxaliplatin toxicity: A randomised dose-finding proof-of-concept trial
36 months, $1,195,454
Associate Professor Adam Patterson, Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre
Banishing tumour hypoxia to render cancer immunotherapy curative
36 months, $1,197,122
Dr Rohit Ramchandra, Physiology
Targeting chemoreceptors in hypertension: a large animal pre-clinical trial
36 months, $1,187,099
Professor Peter Shepherd, Molecular Medicine and Pathology
A new combination therapy for cancer
36 months, $1,166,624