19 August 2019
News
The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation is thrilled to announce that its 2019 Major Project funding round granted a record-breaking $843,323 in support of local research projects.
After an intense review by the Scientific Assessment Committee, led by Professor Ben Hudson, nine projects were successful in gaining the support of the Foundation, covering a wide range of health questions, many of which are very significant to the health of not only the local Canterbury community, but all New Zealanders.
- Dr Richard McNeill – A Phenotyping Cocktail Study to Assess Cytochrome P450 Function in Patients with Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Dr Samantha Lee – Adolescent outcomes of prenatal methadone exposure
- Dr Vanessa Lattimore – BRCA1/2 expression in breast tumours
- Dr Samantha Murray – Combined brain- and eye-directed gene therapy in ovine Batten disease
- Dr Elisabeth Phillips – Glioblastoma and ascorbate
- Dr Campbell Le Heron – Predictors of apathy in Parkinson’s disease
- Dr Janice Chew-Harris – suPAR in cardiovascular disease
- Dr Janet Spittlehouse – Trajectories of depression to middle adulthood in a 40 year birth cohort
- Dr Juliet Pullar – Vitamin C status of patients with non-healing wounds
