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We will upload information about the latest recipients to have been awarded HRC funding for all of our funding opportunities as this information becomes officially available.

The information provided is for ‘year to date’ funding.

Previous Recipient List

  • Research Partnerships for New Zealand Health Delivery
    Dr Paul Young
    Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, in partnership with the Intensive Care Research Centre, Irish National Health Research Board, the Intensive Care Foundation, and NZ district health boards
    Stress ulcer prophylaxis in the intensive care unit
    $200,000
    18 months
    Lay summary
  • Pacific Summer Studentship (2016 funding round)
    Mr Steven Frederick Claude Young
    The University of Auckland
    Analysis of the demographics and barriers to access for patients in Vanuatu
    $5,000
    10 weeks
    Lay summary
  • 2016 funding round - Feasibility Study
    Dr Paul Young
    Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
    Paracetamol therapy in critical illness
    $149,798
    12 months
    Lay summary
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Dr Paul Young
    Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
    ICU-ROX: An ICU RCT of conservative vs. standard oxygen therapy
    $1,404,525
    42 months
    Lay summary
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Dr Paul Young
    Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
    The PLUS trial: PLasmalyte versUs Saline for intravenous fluid therapy in ICU
    $1,385,525
    42 months
    Lay summary
  • Clinical Practitioner Research Fellowship
    Dr Paul Young
    Capital & Coast District Health Board
    Prevention and treatment of fever in the intensive care unit
    $723,720
    60 months
    Lay summary
  • Project
    Professor Alistair Young
    University of Auckland
    Left ventricular remodelling in the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
    $1,188,399
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2011 Career Development Awards - Clinical Research Training Fellow
    Tzu-Chieh Yu
    The University of Auckland
    Targeting Peritoneal Inflammation and Injury in Paediatric Acute Appendicitis
    $170,000
    24 months
  • 2016 funding round - Feasibility Study
    Dr Jie Zhang
    University of Auckland
    The transition zone as corneal endothelial transplants
    $149,609
    24 months
    Lay summary
  • 2013 Funding Round
    Dr Jichao Zhao
    The University of Auckland
    Living with chaos: Structural remodelling and persistent atrial fibrillation
    $133,600
    36 months
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Dr Jichao Zhao
    University of Auckland
    Targeting human atrial microstructure: The key to resolving atrial fibrillation
    $1,178,146
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2007 Career Development Award - Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship
    Yiwen Zheng
    University of Otago
    Searching for answers to cognitive deficits following vestibular damage
    $500,000
    55 months
  • Clinical research training fellowship (2018 funding round)
    Dr Mark Zhu
    University of Auckland
    Designing and using animal models to improve tendon healing
    $313,820
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2014 Funding Round – Feasibility Study
    Dr Caryn Zinn
    AUT University
    Carbohydrate-restricted diets in the treatment of obesity in children
    $150,000
    12 months
    Lay summary
  • 2013 Funding Round
    Dr Andrea ‘t Mannetje
    Massey University, Wellington
    Pesticide exposure and early biomarkers of non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk in farmers
    $1,196,460
    36 months
  • 2012 Funding Round
    Dr Andrea ’t Mannetje
    Massey University, Wellington
    Cure Kids
    MOBI-KIDS New Zealand: Risk Factors for Brain Cancer in Children and Adolescents
    $466,148
    36 months