A part HRC-funded study* led by AUT University Professor Valery Feigin and recently published in the Lancet Neurology shows that air pollution is now a leading risk factor for stroke worldwide.
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) today announced funding for a record 52 projects worth a combined total of $60 million – a 74 per cent dollar increase from last year.
Associate Professor Beverley Lawton has received one of nine new HRC programme research grants to help young pregnant Māori women and their children get the best care possible to improve their health and wellbeing.
The HRC has presented four researchers from Otago University with awards for an outstanding contribution to health research excellence, leadership, and impact.
The new research partnership between PHARMAC and the HRC looks to answer questions that might not otherwise be asked, such as why don't some people get the full benefits of the medicines they take?
Biomedical research published by Wellington-based researcher Professor Mike Berridge and his colleague An Tan has achieved the equivalent of a gold medal in scientific circles – it has been cited,