This year's Explorer Grants include a study to explore how food industry technology used to measure antioxidant properties could aid critically ill patients.
Dr Jason Gurney (Ngāpuhi, Ngati Hine) is embarking on HRC-funded research to find out why Māori are the only non-white population in the world to have the highest rates of testicular cancer.
Three research projects have been awarded a total of just over $1 million to gather evidence in regards to the cost effectiveness and prioritisation of technologies in the area of ischaemic heart disease.
Deadly familial stomach and lobular breast cancers could be successfully treated at their earliest stages, or even prevented, by existing drugs that have been newly identified by University of Otago researchers.
Dr Helen Petousis-Harris from the University of Auckland has been awarded funding to determine the effectiveness of the current whooping cough vaccine schedule in New Zealand.