New Zealand has joined an alliance of the world’s biggest public research funding agencies to provide new research opportunities that target chronic diseases, starting with mental health.
Today the Health Research Council of New Zealand, Breast Cancer Cure, and The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation are pleased to announce the latest recipients of funding through the Breast Cancer Research in New Zealand initiative.
New Zealand researchers are about to develop a radical new way of helping doctors detect antibiotic resistance faster that could save patients’ lives and change the way antibiotics are used around the world.
Research led by the University of Otago, Wellington has found that a ‘home-grown’ naturally occurring probiotic reduces the risk of developing diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes) and lowers fasting blood sugar.
A new version of the popular US-designed smartphone app ‘Step Away’ can now be developed and tested to help adults in New Zealand self-manage their hazardous drinking.
A leading Chinese biotech company has partnered with New Zealand’s top independent biomedical research institute to trial and manufacture new cancer vaccines.
The research team involved in the groundbreaking Dunedin Study at the University of Otago have been awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Science Prize (2016).