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HRC Research Repository

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.
  • Heart failure: markers and management

    Year:
    2014
    Approved budget:
    $4,980,857.55
    Researchers:
    Professor Mark Richards
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Urate and gout: genetic control, environmental and drug interactions

    Year:
    2014
    Approved budget:
    $4,999,512.05
    Researchers:
    Professor Tony Merriman
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Healthy pregnancy, healthy babies

    Year:
    2014
    Approved budget:
    $4,987,292.85
    Researchers:
    Professor David Grattan
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Enhancing primary health care services to improve health in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Year:
    2018
    Approved budget:
    $4,779,446.10
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Mona Jeffreys
    ,
    Mrs Nora Parore
    ,
    Dr Lis Ellison-Loschmann
    ,
    Dr Fiona Imlach
    ,
    Dr Kirsten Smiler
    ,
    Associate Professor Clive Aspin
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Untangling PCOS: Understanding androgen excess and the female brain

    Year:
    2018
    Approved budget:
    $4,999,603.60
    Researchers:
    Professor Rebecca Campbell
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • SYMBIOTIC: Integrated prevention of infectious diseases and long-term conditions

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $4,951,982.35
    Researchers:
    Professor Michael Baker
    ,
    Professor Andrew Day
    ,
    Professor Jeroen Douwes
    ,
    Associate Professor Andrea 't Mannetje
    ,
    Ms Cheryl Davies
    ,
    Dr Amanda Kvalsvig
    ,
    Professor James Stanley
    ,
    Associate Professor Jason Gurney
    ,
    Dr Andrea Teng
    ,
    Dr Sheree Gibb
    ,
    Dr Marine Corbin
    ,
    Dr Virginia Signal
    ,
    Dr Kirsty Danielson
    ,
    Dr Dougal Thorburn
    ,
    Ms Jane Zhang
    ,
    Mr William Leung
    ,
    Ms Carmen Timu-Parata
    ,
    Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu
    ,
    Associate Professor Andrew Waa
    ,
    Dr Melissa McLeod
    ,
    Dr Celia Hume
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Research to maximise the health and wellbeing gains from housing

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $4,996,214.50
    Researchers:
    Professor Nevil Pierse
    ,
    Professor Dr Philippa Howden-Chapman
    ,
    Professor Michael Keall
    ,
    Dr Lucy Telfar-Barnard
    ,
    Dr Elinor Chisholm
    ,
    Ms Cheryl Davies
    ,
    Professor Christopher Cunningham
    ,
    Dr Caroline Halley
    ,
    Dr Lynn Riggs
    ,
    Dr Ramona Tiatia
    ,
    Ms Amber Logan
    ,
    Dr Julie Bennett
    ,
    Dr Kimberley O'Sullivan
    ,
    Dr Sarah Bierre
    ,
    Helen Viggers
    ,
    Kim Nathan
    ,
    Dr Caroline Fyfe
    ,
    Ms Brodie Fraser
    ,
    Ms Jenny Ombler
    ,
    Miss Madeleine White
    ,
    Mr Oliver Robertson
    ,
    Ms Clare Aspinall
    ,
    Ms Wei Zhang
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Reducing the burden of osteoarthritis in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $4,999,268.10
    Researchers:
    Professor J Abbott
    ,
    Dr Ross Wilson
    ,
    Associate Professor Kirsten Coppell
    ,
    Professor Jacquie Kidd
    ,
    Dr Ricky Bell
    ,
    Professor Søren Skou
    ,
    Dr Kirsten Smiler
    ,
    Professor Timothy Stokes
    ,
    Dr Yana Pryymachenko
    ,
    Dr Philippa Nicolson
    ,
    Professor David Gwynne-Jones
    ,
    Ms Angeline Tangiora
    ,
    Professor Peter Choong
    ,
    Professor Kim Bennell
    ,
    Professor Rachelle Buchbinder
    ,
    Professor Deborah Marshall
    ,
    Professor Michelle Dowsey
    ,
    Dr Jackie Whittaker
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Strategies to improve gout management in Aotearoa

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $4,998,486.21
    Researchers:
    Professor Lisa Stamp
    ,
    Dr Leanne Te Karu
    ,
    Professor Nicola Dalbeth
    ,
    Professor Christopher Frampton
    ,
    Professor Keith Petrie
    ,
    Professor Carlo Marra
    ,
    Professor Anthony Kettle
    ,
    Dr Nicholas Magon
    ,
    Assistant Professor Daniel Wright
    ,
    Mr Suli Tuitaupe
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Programme
  • Does inhibition of quorum sensing increase antibiotic resistance spread?

    Year:
    2018
    Approved budget:
    $129,900.00
    Researchers:
    Mr Howard Maxwell
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • Hauora Rangatahi Māori: Appropriateness and acceptability of health measures

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $135,000.00
    Researchers:
    Miss Georgia McCarty
    ,
    Professor Emma Wyeth
    ,
    Associate Professor Trudy Sullivan
    ,
    Professor Sarah Derrett
    ,
    Professor Dr Sue Crengle
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • Microdrop administration of phenylephrine and cyclopentolate in neonates

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $74,927.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Lisa Kremer
    ,
    Associate Professor Natalie Medlicott
    ,
    Associate Professor David Reith
    ,
    Assistant Professor Roland Broadbent
    ,
    Dr Liza Edmonds
    ,
    Dr Mary Jane Sime
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • Combatting mate kohi (tuberculosis) on the home front

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $131,850.00
    Researchers:
    Mr Callum August
    ,
    Dr Htin Lin Aung
    ,
    Professor Gregory Cook
    ,
    Mr Gregory Gimenez
    ,
    Dr Anneka Anderson
    ,
    Mr Howard Maxwell
    ,
    Dr Veronica Playle
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • An exploration of Māori cultural embeddedness

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $67,440.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Ririwai Fox
    Host:
    Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington
    Proposal type
    Māori Health PhD Scholarship
  • A clinical:research alliance for diagnosing genetic disorders in New Zealand

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $599,939.44
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Louise Bicknell
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Consolidator Grant
  • 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
  • Targeting the immune response to improve outcomes in ER+ve breast cancer

    Year:
    2014
    Approved budget:
    $199,583.00
    Researchers:
    Associate Professor Anita Dunbier
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Breast Cancer Research Project
  • Synthetic lethal targeting of lobular breast cancer

    Year:
    2014
    Approved budget:
    $199,792.00
    Researchers:
    Professor Parry Guilford
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Breast Cancer Research 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
  • Investigating Fn14 as a driver of breast cancer metastasis

    Year:
    2018
    Approved budget:
    $133,263.04
    Researchers:
    Dr Heather Cunliffe
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Breast Cancer Research Project
  • Extracellular vesicles as inter-cellular communicators in fat graft retention

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $228,392.75
    Researchers:
    Dr Kirsty Danielson
    ,
    Associate Professor Margaret Currie
    ,
    Associate Professor Elizabeth Dennett
    ,
    Dr Elisabeth Phillips
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Breast Cancer Research Project
  • Exploring a novel therapy to reduce breast cancer risk in high-risk individuals

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $249,974.83
    Researchers:
    Dr Vanessa Lau
    ,
    Associate Professor Logan Walker
    ,
    Professor Bridget Robinson
    ,
    Dr Sarah Diermeier
    ,
    Dr Andrew Douglas
    ,
    Professor Dr Diana Baralle
    Host:
    University of Otago
    Proposal type
    Breast Cancer Research Project