Wellington-based medical researchers have received up to $109,839 in Research For Life’s latest funding round. Research For Life funds innovative quality research undertaken by researchers in the early stages of their careers who, through their work, will advance the quality of healthcare in t... Keep Reading
Sir Graham Le Gros has been promoted to Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to medical science in the 2026 New Year Honours. Keep Reading
Wellington-based medical researchers have received up to $127,306 in Research For Life’s first funding round for 2024. Research For Life funds innovative quality research undertaken by researchers in the early stages of their careers who, through their work, will advance the quality of healthcare in the Wellington region... Keep Reading
Research For Life was proud to sponsor the 2025 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Wellington heat, held on 30 July, where five PhD candidates took on the challenge of presenting their research in just three minutes and in plain English. First prize was awarded to Danielle Sword, from the Department of Medicine at the Dunedin School of Medicine, for... Keep Reading
Brett Delahunt, a world-renowned researcher in pathology with a special interest in prostate cancer, has joined the Malaghan Institute. News from the Malaghan Institute Keep Reading
Research For Life grant recipient Hannah Boswell is doing great work at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research. Hannah is a PhD student, developing viruses that can be inhaled providing localised immunity in the lungs and airways and stopping respiratory viruses at the very point they enter the body. Read the article from the Malaghan news Keep Reading
Wellington-based medical researchers have received up to $63,680 in Research For Life’s first funding round for 2024. Research For Life funds innovative quality research undertaken by researchers in the early stages of their careers who, through their work, will advance the quality of healthcare in the Wellington region and... Keep Reading
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) announced more than $5.6 million in funding to help support nine talented Māori and Pacific health researchers to become leaders in their field. Congratulations to Research For Life grant recipient Dr Zaramasina Clark, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington on receiving HRC funding... Keep Reading
With antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on the rise, there is an urgent need to discover new, effective antibiotics. Dr Jeremy Owen from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and his team aim to combat this problem using the hidden potential within bacteria. They have been awarded a Marsden Fund Standard grant to investigate... Keep Reading
At the Research For Life AGM on 7 November, Chair Dr Lance Lawler announced that a new postdoctoral fellowship, the Research For Life Fellowship, has been awarded to Dr Abigail Sharrock. Abigail is a senior researcher working alongside Professor David Ackerley at the School of Biological Sciences, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of... Keep Reading
Research For Life congratulates Hannah van der Woude Hannah van der Woude, a Master’s Student at the University of Otago Wellington, recently won the University of Otago Wellington Health Sciences heat in the 3MT® competition. The 3MT® competition is open to both thesis Master’s and Doctoral students. Entrants must communicate their... Keep Reading
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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
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