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Drs Michelle Thunders and Jeremy Owen have been appointed to Research For Life’s Research Advisory Committee. The Research Advisory Committee evaluates applications for funding in terms of their scientific merit, methodology, likely outcomes and outputs. They replace Prof Brett Delahunt, Professor of Pathology and Molecular Medicine at the... Keep Reading

Thirteen Wellington-based medical researchers received grants in the first funding round of the year from the Research For Life. Nine research grant applicants received a total of $120,602 to undertake innovative medical research and four travel grants totalling $11,070 were approved to assist local researchers meet the cost of presenting... Keep Reading

Research For Life is off to another year. In the last funding round nine medical researchers were awarded $72,000 in funding and the March round is not far away. Research For Life is focused on deepening its commitment to research in the Wellington region, particularly to those researchers in the early stages of their careers. In 2016 R... Keep Reading

As happens twice a year, there is good news for many medical researchers in the Wellington region. Last October we announced that nine Wellington-based medical researchers had received grants in the second funding round of the year from Research For Life. Three research grant applicants received a total of $62,914.00 to undertake innovative... Keep Reading

We launched our second ever annual appeal at the Wellington Club on Monday, 25 September. Some 50 supporters attended and heard a presentation by Research For Life’s chairman, Prof John Nacey, about the important role of medical and biomedical research and the ambitions of Research For Life in the Wellington region. Up-and-coming opera star... Keep Reading

Research For Life has recently started a process which we hope will help medical researchers, in the Wellington region, to connect and share more. Hannah Wignall is the latest addition to the Research for Life family. Dedicated to connecting Wellingtonians, Hannah has come on board to do just that with the medical research community here in... Keep Reading

We’ve just sent out our first email newsletter of 2017. By the way, if you’d like to join our database, jump on here. As Research For Life medical researchers tell us constantly, there is considerable anticipation and excitement in all their work, especially because it’s all about discovery from the realm of the unknown. 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

Even as the appeal letters were being delivered by posties in the Wellington region and the glasses cleared, after the Appeal Launch, two large donations were already being pledged to Research For Life. The organisation is extremely grateful for the support of people who choose to dig deeper in support of this great cause for Wellington. If... Keep Reading

Research For Life's first Annual Appeal is under way with a vengeance with this dominant ad in today's Dominion Post. It marks a significant departure for the organisation as it seeks deserved recognition and public support for its mission to fund medical research in the Wellington region. Please read the press ad copy below the ad photo. &... Keep Reading

The history of medical research and its relevance to modern medicine, and the quality of life we all enjoy as a result, was entertainingly presented at the September edition of the Wellington Business Network. Who would have thought that Ambroise Paré a French battle medic in the 16th century became one of the fathers of surgery and modern... Keep Reading

Theatereview’s Pepe Becker described Don Giovanni as “wonderfully engrossing” after it opened on 20 August at the Hannah Playhouse. And so it was as a gang of 50 Research For Life ticket-holders descended on the closing night performance (Saturday 27 August). Saturday night in Wellington presented itself as typically chilly and wet. And... Keep Reading

It’s official. Research For Life will launch its first Annual Appeal on 19 September. We’ll be featuring the good work carried out here in Wellington by an army of talented young researchers, all supported by seasoned professionals – people like Professor Brett Delahunt. Brett is a Research For Life board member and as Chair of the... Keep Reading

National Party MP Chris Bishop was guest speaker at the Wellington Business Network’s July event. Thirty five network members heard Chris discuss the implications of Brexit, the American presidential race, and the recent Australian general election to this country for this country. In each case, there is a backlash against free trade,... Keep Reading

I recently stumbled across a massive poster of a Wellington mayoral candidate. Now I am no expert on politics and that is certainly not what this post is about, but it got me thinking about self-promotion. I for one would not be overly comfortable with a larger than life picture of me on a billboard, but I understand that for electoral campaigns yo Keep Reading