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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.
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Exploring the early experiences of the assisted dying service in Aotearoa

    Year:
    2022
    Approved budget:
    $1,399,972.80
    Researchers:
    Dr Jessica Young
    ,
    Dr Jeanne Snelling
    ,
    Associate Professor Gary Cheung
    ,
    Associate Professor Jackie Robinson
    ,
    Dr Te Hurinui Karaka-Clarke
    ,
    Dr Janine Winters
    ,
    Associate Professor Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll
    ,
    Professor Ben White
    ,
    Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell
    ,
    Dr Aida Dehkhoda
    ,
    Professor Kate Diesfeld
    ,
    Associate Professor Richard Egan
    ,
    Kate Reid
    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
  • Community water supplies: ensuring microbial safety for disease prevention

    Year:
    2016
    Approved budget:
    $1,061,133.50
    Researchers:
    Dr Liping Pang
    Host:
    ESR Institute of Environmental Science & Research
    Proposal type
    Project
  • Evolution of an epidemic: emergence and adaptation of group B meningococci in NZ

    Year:
    2017
    Approved budget:
    $1,188,701.00
    Researchers:
    Dr Philip Carter
    Host:
    ESR Institute of Environmental Science & Research
    Proposal type
    Project
  • Unravelling the mysteries of yersiniosis

    Year:
    2020
    Approved budget:
    $1,308,050.50
    Researchers:
    Dr Brent Gilpin
    ,
    Dr Cheryl Brunton
    ,
    Miss Debbie Smith
    ,
    Dr Lucia Rivas
    ,
    Dr Beverley Horn
    ,
    Ms Bridget Armstrong
    ,
    Mrs Wendy Dallas-Katoa
    ,
    Ms Jacqueline Wright
    ,
    Mr Hugo Strydom
    ,
    Ms Maria Hepi
    ,
    Mr Peter Cressey
    ,
    Dr Anne-Marie Perchec-Merien
    ,
    Dr Kristin Dyet
    ,
    Dr Anne Midwinter
    ,
    Dr Rob Lake
    ,
    Ms Jing Wang
    Host:
    ESR Institute of Environmental Science & Research
    Proposal type
    Health Delivery Project
  • "Mauri ora ki te whenua, he tatai nui ki te rangi"

    Year:
    2016
    Approved budget:
    $9,000.00
    Researchers:
    Ms Heeni Shortland
    Host:
    Te Ahikaaroa Trust
    Proposal type
    Ngā Kanohi Kitea Development Grant