The HRC is pleased to announce funding for four projects that aim to facilitate the development of research collaborations between New Zealand researchers and European Union colleagues.
The International Relationship Fund: EU-NZ Collaborations supports collaborative research relationships focused on non-communicable diseases.
The following list of successful applicants includes the named Principal Investigator only.
Professor Geoff Chase
University of Canterbury
International Relationship Fund: EU-NZ collaboration
24 months, $193,400
Professor Chase plans to develop and validate his team’s recent modeling advance that enables real-time, beat-to-beat estimation of stroke-volume (SV) from existing catheter measurements. This new capability will enable more optimised and personalised circulatory care that is not currently possible. They will collaborate with existing University of Liege (ULG; Belgium) colleagues and expand it to include the GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences group at ULG and its medical school at CHU de Liege Hospital.
Professor Robert Doughty
The University of Auckland
International Relationship Fund: EU-NZ collaboration
24 months, $199,951
Professor Doughty states that the objective of this grant is to establish a critical mass of expertise across clinical, epidemiological and biostatistical disciplines in collaboration between the University of Auckland and Oxford University on cardiovascular disease risk prediction/diagnosis. As far as they are aware, this will be the first significant international collaboration to develop a coherent research and analytical methods programme on cardiovascular risk prediction/diagnosis.
Professor Rodney Jackson
The University of Auckland
International Relationship Fund: EU-NZ collaboration
18 months, $199,809
Professor Jackson aims to establish collaborative relationships between the New Zealand applicants and researchers in the United Kingdom and Denmark who undertake large scale clinical data linkage studies related to cardiovascular diseases.
Associate Professor Tony Merriman
University of Otago
International Relationship Fund: EU-NZ collaboration
24 months, $195,406
Associate Professor Merriman will lead a grant which addresses the non-communicable disease gout, taking a genetic approach towards furthering knowledge of the molecular pathways of this disease. The work will support new collaborative activity between New Zealand gout researchers and a network of European gout researchers.
For more information about these research projects, check out the full lay summaries on the HRC website.