Invest in a Research Project

We fund medical research that is at the top of its field not only locally but internationally, and will have a significant impact on the people of Canterbury, and New Zealand.

If you are interested in a research project which is currently underway, and would like to invest in this work, you can do so directly below:

• Can oxidative stress modify the human epigenome?
• Establishing the zebrafish as a model of drug use on the genome
• How does Haemophilus influenzae import sialic acids from the human host?
• Inhibiting Menaquinone Biosynthesis and Biofilms in Staphylococcus aureus
• Redox regulation of the cytokine MIF during inflammation

• Improving Memory
• Predictors of apathy in Parkinson’s disease
• The Hippocampus in Parkinson’s Disease
• Working Memory Training in Adults with Traumatic Brain Injury

• Advanced Deep Learning Algorithms for Automated Breast Cancer Histology Slide Evaluations
• Assay development for a protein implicated in metastatic melanoma
• Automatic Nuclei Segmentation and Tumour Cellularity Assessment in Breast Cancer Histopathological Slides
• BRCA1/2 expression in breast tumours
• Contribution of enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis to colorectal carcinogenesis
• Developing tools to identify ascorbate-responsive subgroups of acute myeloid leukaemia
• Does exercise lower systemic inflammation and improve chemotherapy efficacy in cancer patients?
• Glioblastoma and ascorbate
• Intravenous Vitamin C and severe sepsis outcomes
• The effects of resveratrol’s derivatives on VEGF, IL-6, IL-8 and NF-kB in ovarian cancer in vitro and in vivo studies
• The role of microRNAs in fat-breast cancer cell crosstalk

• Adolescent outcomes of prenatal methadone exposure
• Nutrition and Paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Effect of vitamin C on quality of life outcomes in survivors of sepsis
• Evaluation of novel urinary biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
• Vitamin C status of patients with non-healing wounds

• C-type natriuretic peptide: a potential marker of chronic kidney disease in diabetes

• Cardiovascular effects of very preterm birth at adolescences: A longitudinal cohort study
• Phosphodiesterase 9 inhibition as a novel therapeutic strategy in heart failure
• suPAR in cardiovascular disease

• Engineering Cartilage Constructs using 3D Bioassembly Approach

• Understanding the clinical course and personal experience of sepsis

• Activation Therapy for Inpatient Depression
• Trajectories of depression to middle adulthood in a 40 year birth cohort
• Pilot Study of Cognitively-Enhanced Interpersonal and Social Rhythms Therapy for Depression

• Combined brain- and eye-directed gene therapy in ovine Batten disease

• A Phenotyping Cocktail Study to Assess Cytochrome P450 Function in Patients with Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

• Development of a bioassay to detect pre-eclampsia