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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

  • 2006 Funding Round
    Mr Bevan Clayton-Smith
    Massey University
    Older Māori and medication: management, regulation and facilitation
    $120,519
    24 months
  • 2011 Research Partnerships for New Zealand Health Delivery
    Professor Sunny Collings
    University of Otago, Wellington, in partnership with Valley Primary Health Organisation and Hutt Valley DHB
    Found in translation: implementing a tool for primary mental health development
    $199,249
    18 months
  • 2009 Funding Round
    Dr Sunny Collings
    University of Otago, Wellington
    The Nature and Extent of Informal Coercion in Community Mental Health in New Zealand
    $1,884,065
    36 months
  • 2008 Funding Round
    Dr Sunny Collings
    University of Otago, Wellington
    Ultra-brief intervention for common mental health syndromes in primary care
    $148,767
    12 months
  • 2009 District Health Board Research Fund
    Professor Sunny Collings
    University of Otago
    Integration of Mental Health Care within a Primary Health Care Setting
    $999,632
    20 months
  • 2008 Funding Round
    Dr Adelaide Collins
    Māori Development Research Centre
    Māori with disabilities and their whanau navigating complex support systems
    $100,000
    36 months
  • 2007 Funding Round
    Dr Lesley Collins
    Massey University
    Eukaryotic Signature Proteins - Guides to modern eukaryotic parasites
    $132,000
    36 months
  • 2008 Partnership Programme
    Dr Adelaide Collins
    Maori Development Research Centre Ltd
    Health Research Council of New Zealand, Ministry of Health
    Research priorities identified by Mâori with disabilities and their whânau
    $270,000
    14 months
  • Emerging researcher first grant (2017 funding round)
    Dr Michael Collins
    Auckland District Health Board
    The BEST-fluids study: Better evidence for selecting transplant fluids
    $249,965
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • Project
    Dr Michael Collins
    Auckland District Health Board
    The BEST-Fluids study: Better evidence for selecting transplant fluids
    $549,035
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • 2008 Partnership Programme
    Associate Professor Margie Comrie
    Massey University
    Health Research Council of New Zealand, Ministry of Health
    Health literacy and communicating immunisation information to decision-makers
    $213,577
    21 months
  • 2012 Funding Round
    Dr Tamlin Conner
    University of Otago, Dunedin
    The Genetics of Wellbeing in Daily Life
    $149,977
    36 months
  • 2010 Funding Round
    Professor Martin Connolly
    The University of Auckland
    Aged Residential Care Healthcare Utilization Study
    $1,121,406
    36 months
  • 2012 Research Partnerships for New Zealand Health Delivery
    Professor Martin Connolly
    The University of Auckland
    The Health Research Council of New Zealand, in partnership with Waitemata DHB and Waitemata PHO
    Aged Residential Care Healthcare Implementation Project (ARCHIP)
    $200,000
    18 months
  • 2006 District Health Board Research Fund
    Professor Martin Connolly
    Auckland UniServices Ltd
    Alleviating the Burden of Chronic Conditions in New Zealand (The ABC NZ Study)
    $540,000
    32 months
  • 2006 International Investment Opportunities Fund
    Associate Professor Bronwen Connor
    The University of Auckland
    Human Neural Progenitor Cell Transplantation Therapy and Huntington's Disease
    $453,000
    30 months
  • 2015 Funding Round - Project
    Associate Professor Bronwen Connor
    The University of Auckland
    Cellular reprogramming: A unique approach to understanding Huntington's disease
    $1,190,497
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • Sir Charles Hercus health research fellowship (2018 funding round)
    Dr Lisa Connor
    Victoria University of Wellington
    Impact of microenvironment on dendritic cell function
    $500,000
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • 2014 Funding Round – Explorer Grant
    Professor Gregory Cook
    University of Otago, Dunedin
    Designing metabiotics to combat multidrug-resistant pathogens
    $150,000
    24 months
    Lay summary
  • e-ASIA Joint Research Program
    Professor Gregory Cook
    University of Otago
    HRC
    Whole-genome sequencing of drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains for diagnostics and outbreak detection
    $450,000
    36 months
    Lay summary