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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

  • Project
    Professor William Denny
    University of Auckland
    Development of a novel and specific inhibitor of CSF1R for cancer therapy
    $1,199,967
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2015 Funding Round - Project
    Associate Professor Sarah Derrett
    Massey University, Palmerston North
    Subsequent Injury Study (SInS): Improving outcomes for injured New Zealanders
    $588,676
    24 months
    Lay summary
  • Pacific Project
    Dr Ofa Dewes
    University of Auckland
    Differences in fructose uptake in Pacific adolescents
    $599,987
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2009 Funding Round
    Associate Professor Paul Donaldson
    The University of Auckland
    Diabetic lens cataract: a problem with cell volume regulation
    $1,302,476
    36 months
  • 2014 Funding Round – Project
    Professor Paul Donaldson
    The University of Auckland
    Delivering lens anti-oxidants: A strategy to develop anti-cataract therapies
    $1,198,171
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2011 Funding Round
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    Massey University, Wellington
    Building Research in Occupational Health in New Zealand (BROHNZ)
    $2,812,901
    36 months
  • 2012 Funding Round
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    Massey University, Wellington
    Unpasteurised Milk: Protective for Allergies and Asthma?
    $1,199,899
    36 months
  • 2013 Funding Round
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    Massey University, Wellington
    Pesticide exposure and neuropsychological effects in children
    $1,198,428
    36 months
  • 2014 Funding Round – Project
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    Massey University, Wellington
    Non-inflammatory mechanisms in asthma
    $1,199,966
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2015 Funding Round - Project
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    Massey University, Wellington
    Persistent airflow limitation and the airway microbiome in childhood asthma
    $1,199,980
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    Massey University, Wellington
    Work-related risk factors for cardiovascular disease
    $715,281
    24 months
    Lay summary
  • 2014 Funding Round – Project
    Professor Susan Dovey
    University of Otago, Dunedin
    Patient harms in New Zealand general practices: Records review study
    $1,174,690
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2008 Funding Round
    Professor Tony Dowell
    University of Otago, Wellington
    Understanding diabetes management: tracking communication in primary care
    $1,125,164
    24 months
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Dr Margaret Dudley
    University of Auckland
    A Māori approach to the assessment and management of dementia
    $1,056,270
    48 months
    Lay summary
  • 2009 Funding Round
    Associate Professor Rod Dunbar
    The University of Auckland
    Antigen presentation to T cells in human lymph nodes
    $991,603
    36 months
  • 2007 Funding Round
    Associate Professor Rod Dunbar
    The University of Auckland
    Targeting vaccines to human antigen-presenting cells with synthetic glycopeptides
    $1,104,583
    36 months
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Professor Rod Dunbar
    University of Auckland
    Targeting cancer vaccines to human dendritic cells via CD301
    $1,190,835
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2016 Funding Round - Project
    Professor Rod Dunbar
    University of Auckland
    Proliferating tumour-associated macrophages in human cancers
    $1,173,502
    36 months
    Lay summary
  • 2010 Funding Round
    Dr Scott Duncan
    AUT University
    Healthy Homework: A physical activity and nutrition intervention for children
    $1,187,412
    36 months
  • 2015 Funding Round - Project
    Professor Richard Edwards
    University of Otago, Wellington
    The New Zealand International tobacco control project
    $1,199,957
    48 months
    Lay summary