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All the latest news and media releases from the Health Research Council.
  • Funding outcomes for 2012/2013

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    Over the course of a year, the HRC typically offers in excess of 30 different funding opportunities, including sporadically released Requests for Proposals.

  • Geneva gene researcher back for Massey graduation

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    Auckland scientist and HRC Māori Health Research PhD recipient, Dr Chris Rodley, travelled a long way to pick up his PhD at the first of six Massey University graduation ceremonies in Tak

  • Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership announced

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    A Request for Proposals has been released for a joint initiative that will fund a number of research projects investigating rheumatic fever in New Zealand.
  • Viagra clinical trial for at-risk pregnant mums

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    The world's first clinical trial treating pregnant mums carrying babies struggling to grow in the womb with Sildenafil (Viagra) will soon get underway with funding from the HRC and Gravida.
  • Study highlights rescue workers' achievements

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    Early results from a study into the occupational health of emergency workers shows they played a vital role during the Christchurch earthquakes and aftershocks.
  • Opportunity for researchers with collaborations in China

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    The Health Research Council of New Zealand would like to advise interested New Zealand researchers who have demonstrated collaborations with China-based researchers that funding opportunities

  • Exploring heart disease in Pacific communities

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    John Sluyter from The University of Auckland will use his Pacific health research fellowship to explore whether it's possible to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease in Pacific communities.
  • Supporting whānau bereaved by suicide

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    Drs Tepora Emery and Candy Cookson Cox have delved into Te Arawa’s ancestral history to help develop a suicide ‘postvention’ tool that can support whānau who have lost loved ones to suicide.