Nine medical researchers awarded $72,000 in October funding POSTED: 1 November 2017 The second funding round of 2017 funding from Research For Life saw nine Wellington-based medical researchers receive grants. Three applicants received a total of $62,914.00 to undertake innovative medical research and three travel grants totalling&... Keep Reading
Eleven Wellington-based medical researchers received grants in the first funding round of the year from the Research For Life. Five Research Grant applicants received a total of $47,095 to undertake medical research and a further six Travel Grants totalling $14,000 were approved to assist local researchers meet the cost of presenting their... Keep Reading
Research For Life (Wellington Medical Research Foundation) calls for grant applications in March and September of each year and the next closing date for applications has just been announced as 7 March 2017. Grants for research may be awarded to medical or non-medical researchers whose applications satisfy the objects of the Foundation and the... Keep Reading
My father, Len Malaghan, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1962. Len’s treatment exposed him to the benefits of new drugs as well as the dedication and commitment of the cancer specialists. This experience was formative in demonstrating the benefits of undertaking research in New Zealand, and Len decided to make a difference. Keep Reading
The major review of existing international research said there was strong evidence of a direct harmful effect of drinking, although the biological reasons for this remained unclear. Professor Jennie Connor of the University of Otago found the cancers linked directly to drinking were those of the mouth and throat, larynx, oesophagus, liver, colon,.. Keep Reading
Last week, Wellington plastic surgeon Dr Swee Tan was reported (June 30) to have questioned the "hype" around cancer immunotherapy drugs such as Keytruda, referring to them as being hugely expensive and only partially effective, and claiming that they "don't attack cancer stem cells", with only one in three patients responding with tumour... Keep Reading
Whether medicinal marijuana should be legalised has attracted debate recently. Central to the discussion both in New Zealand and overseas, is how legalising the drug for medicinal purposes will affect the use of non-medical marijuana and other drugs. Dr Luke Yu-Wei Chu's empirical research provides insight to this question. Keep Reading
In 2013, work between Sydney-based Professor Wolfgang Weninger, Dr Ben Roediger and Malaghan Institute PhD student Ryan Kyle[1] - under the supervision of Professor Graham Le Gros - resulted in the discovery and characterisation of a new immune cell in the skin capable of driving atopic inflammation. The results of this work were published in the.. Keep Reading
A new exhibition called Beyond the Lab will open at the Science Museum on Thursday, showcasing a cross-section of contemporary biomedical initiatives in Europe. The exhibition will feature the work of seven European scientists conducting urgent research with cutting-edge applications, with the significant additional factor that most of the... Keep Reading
The Australian Synchrotron, the largest particle accelerator in the Southern Hemisphere, is helping scientists from all corners of the world, including more than 350 New Zealand researchers, to study everything from food technology to arts forgery, from brain function to fundamental physics, from climate change to cancer research. Keep Reading
Kate Obermeyer grew up thinking that the world sounded the same to everybody around her. It wasn’t until she was 11 that her hearing loss was discovered during a routine primary school check. She was fitted with hearing aids and presented with a devastating prognosis that she would be deaf by the time she was 40. Keep Reading
At the start of 2016, Malaghan Institute scientist Mike Berridge published ground-breaking research in which he showed that mitochondria, little powerhouses that fuel each cell, can shuttle between individual cells and transfer DNA. DNA transfer between animal cells was considered impossible, and the work describes a fundamentally new process that. Keep Reading
Grappling with a subject where there are more questions than answers is part of what attracts Dr Dianne McCarthy to science. The Blenheim resident was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to science, business and women as part of the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours. McCarthy said it was an honour to receive the... Keep Reading
Two of New Zealand's top biomedical researchers have achieved what's considered a "gold medal" in global science -- chalking up 1000 citations of a landmark paper they published 22 years ago. The 1993 study led by Professor Mike Berridge and research fellow An Tan, both of the Wellington-based Malaghan Institute, is now the most cited original... Keep Reading
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