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This library contains details of HRC-funded studies over the past 10 years, including study title, lay summary, lead investigator, host organisation, the sum awarded, year of study commencement, and contract duration.

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  • Premature loss of oocytes leads to ovarian disorder and carcinomas

    Year:
    2010
    Approved budget:
    $148,000.00
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Janet Pitman
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Emerging Researcher First Grant

  • Analogues of zampanolide: Design, synthesis and anti-cancer activity

    Year:
    2011
    Approved budget:
    $126,600.00
    Researchers:
    Assistant Professor Joanne Harvey
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Emerging Researcher First Grant

  • Engineering superior nitroreductases for cancer gene therapy

    Year:
    2013
    Approved budget:
    $149,850.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Janine Copp
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Emerging Researcher First Grant

  • Mitochondrial injury and inter-cellular mitochondrial transfer

    Year:
    2015
    Approved budget:
    $1,036,746.44
    Researchers:
    Dr Melanie-Jane McConnell
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Biodiscovery and biosynthesis of new drug candidates

    Year:
    2016
    Approved budget:
    $1,195,266.88
    Researchers:
    Professor David Ackerley
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Repurposing the anthelmentic niclosamide to combat Gram negative superbugs

    Year:
    2018
    Approved budget:
    $1,189,474.90
    Researchers:
    Professor David Ackerley
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Targeting breast cancer metastasis with heparan sulfate mimetics

    Year:
    2018
    Approved budget:
    $100,000.35
    Researchers:
    Professor Emeritus John Miller
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Breast Cancer Research Project

  • Tackling antimicrobial resistance

    Year:
    2019
    Approved budget:
    $1,180,238.90
    Researchers:
    Professor Emily Parker
    ,
    Dr Gerd Mittelstadt
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Developing computational tools to design highly potent antibiotics

    Year:
    2019
    Approved budget:
    $150,000.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Wanting Jiao
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Explorer Grant

  • He Tapu Te Whare Tangata: Empowering rural solutions

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $1,293,194.40
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Ms Anna Adcock
    ,
    Mr Charles Lambert
    ,
    Dr Leigh Duncan
    ,
    Mrs Bobbie Cameron
    ,
    Mrs Francesca Storey
    ,
    Professor Stacie Geller
    ,
    Associate Professor Peter Sykes
    ,
    Professor Merilyn Hibma
    ,
    Associate Professor Jo-Ann Stanton
    ,
    Dr Evelyn MacDonald
    ,
    Ms Varsha Parag
    ,
    Dr Jennifer Harré Hindmarsh
    ,
    Dr Melanie Gibson
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Project

  • Designing a scalable vaccine to induce liver resident T cells against malaria

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $1,195,993.80
    Researchers:
    Professor Gavin Painter
    ,
    Susanna Chan
    ,
    Ms Sarah Draper
    ,
    Professor William Heath
    ,
    Professor Ian Hermans
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Vaccine development: upping the ante

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $596,504.10
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Bridget Stocker
    ,
    Dr Emma Dangerfield
    ,
    Associate Professor Mattie Timmer
    ,
    Professor Sho Yamasaki
    ,
    Dr Kensuke Shibata
    ,
    Dr Jacelyn Loh
    ,
    Professor Thomas Proft
    ,
    Professor Dr Ulrich Maus
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Consolidator Grant

  • Implementing HPV primary testing to prevent cervical cancer in NZ: Te Tai Tokerau

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $1,398,122.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Dr Evelyn MacDonald
    ,
    Ms Anna Adcock
    ,
    Professor Stacie Geller
    ,
    Dr Kendall Stevenson
    ,
    Associate Professor Jo-Ann Stanton
    ,
    Associate Professor Peter Sykes
    ,
    Associate Professor Marion Saville
    ,
    Associate Professor David Hawkes
    ,
    Dr Nokuthaba Sibanda
    ,
    Professor Merilyn Hibma
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project

  • Predict and Prevent COVID-19: a data driven innovation project

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $533,224.20
    Researchers:
    Professor Colin Simpson
    ,
    Professor Michael Baker
    ,
    Professor Alexei Drummond
    ,
    Professor Nigel French
    ,
    Professor David Murdoch
    ,
    Dr Binh Nguyen
    ,
    Professor Winston Seah
    ,
    Mr Andrew Sporle
    ,
    Dr Mehnaz Adnan
    ,
    Dr David Welch
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Economic Risks from COVID-19 in Pacific Island Countries

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $51,435.90
    Researchers:
    Professor Ilan Noy
    ,
    Mr Nguyen Doan
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    COVID-19 Rapid Response Project

  • Harnessing lung resident immune cells for mucosal vaccines

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $1,199,975.40
    Researchers:
    Dr Lisa Connor
    ,
    Dr Benjamin Compton
    ,
    Professor Ian Hermans
    ,
    Professor Gavin Painter
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Hapū Whānau: Implementing iwi-owned service hubs to improve health outcomes

    Year:
    2021
    Approved budget:
    $1,385,761.90
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Helmut Modlik
    ,
    Dr Liza Edmonds
    ,
    Dr Evelyn MacDonald
    ,
    Dr Judy Ormandy
    ,
    Professor Stacie Geller
    ,
    Mrs Francesca Storey
    ,
    Ms Michelle Vincent
    ,
    Ms Victoria Roper
    ,
    Dr Melanie Gibson
    ,
    Ms Varsha Parag
    ,
    Miss Tina Bennett
    ,
    Miss Rachel Pearce
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project

  • Synthesis of fluorescently labelled ligands for therapeutic applications

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $5,000.00
    Researchers:
    Miss Jessica Siesicki
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Summer Studentship

  • Self-assembling therapeutic nanovaccines for cancer

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $150,000.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Benjamin Compton
    ,
    Dr Lisa Connor
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Explorer Grant

  • New targets for infectious disease - tackling antimicrobial resistance

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,200,000.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Emily Parker
    ,
    Dr Wanting Jiao
    ,
    Professor Peter Tyler
    ,
    Professor Gregory Cook
    ,
    Associate Professor Jeremy Lott
    ,
    Dr Gerd Mittelstadt
    ,
    Dr Matthew McNeil
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Project

  • Large-scale substitution approaches to engineer non-ribosomal peptides

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $536,377.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Mark Calcott
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Sir Charles Hercus Fellowship

  • Traceless linking methodology for the synthesis of O-linked glycoproteins

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $7,500.00
    Researchers:
    Mr Aidan Lynch
    ,
    Associate Professor Mattie Timmer
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health Summer Studentship

  • Whanake te Kura - flourishing pēpi and whānau

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,392,637.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Beverley Lawton
    ,
    Ms Shelley Smith
    ,
    Dr Liza Edmonds
    ,
    Professor Trecia Wouldes
    ,
    Associate Professor Lynne Russell
    ,
    Ms Anna Adcock
    ,
    Professor Stacie Geller
    ,
    Mrs Francesca Storey
    ,
    Dr Melanie Gibson
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project

  • Building a synthetic biology pipeline to develop nucleoside therapeutics

    Year:
    2023
    Approved budget:
    $250,001.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Alistair Brown
    ,
    Professor David Ackerley
    ,
    Dr Lawrence Harris
    ,
    Associate Professor Robert Keyzers
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Emerging Researcher First Grant

  • Neighbourhoods for active kids

    Year:
    2014
    Approved budget:
    $1,199,135.50
    Researchers:
    Professor Melody Smith
    Host:
    Auckland University of Technology/The University of Auckland
    Proposal type
    Project

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