Recipients January 2016 Call

International Leader Fellowship

Number of received proposals: 10

Number of funded proposals: 3

New Zealand PI	Institution	Project Title	Funding (GST Excl)	Months	Collaborator
Dr AL MacKenzie	Cawthron Institute	Underwater Microscopes to Orbiting Satellites: Focusing in on Aquatic Algae	$150,000	36	Professor Raphael M Kudela (University of Southern California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Professor JC Cornish	The University of Auckland	Engaging a leading academic with medical device commercialisation expertise (to aid the development of a medical device market in NZ)	$150,000	36	Professor Buddy B Ratner (University of Washington, USA)
Dr FM McBryde	The University of Auckland	Developing Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Cardiovascular Disease	$150,000	36	Professor Julian J Paton (University of Bristol, UK)

Number of received proposals: 7

Number of funded proposals: 6

New Zealand PI	Institution	Project Title
Dr S Glen	Landcare Research	Eradicating invasive predators from large, inhabited islands
Dr D Leduc	National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd	Assessing biodiversity in coastal habitats using the environmental DNA approach
Dr TM Ma	The University of Auckland	Improving the prediction and location of structural damage in buildings from instrumented building data
Dr G Katare	University of Otago	The non-neuronal cholinergic system of the heart: a novel mechanism for regulating heart metabolism
Associate Professor C Zuccarello	Victoria University of Wellington	Physiological adaptation in marine red seaweeds
Dr B Ng	Victoria University of Wellington	Validating new queueing models for Software Defined Networking

No Applications received.

Number of received proposals: 2

Number of funded proposals: 2

New Zealand PI	Institution	Project Title
Mr CE Conway	Victoria University of Wellington	Generation and eruption of silicic magmas at submarine volcanoes of the Kermadec and Izu-Bonin Arcs
Ms Y Wang	The University of Auckland	Infants' expectations surrounding inanimate agents (i.e., robots) as cooperative partners

Number of received proposals: 6

Number of funded proposals: 6

New Zealand PI	Institution	Project Title	Collaborator	Collaborator Institution
Dr XX Zhang	Massey University	Developing biological control strategies for the bacterial canker disease of kiwifruit	Distinguished Professor G Yang	Beifang University of Nationalities
Dr WQ Zhuang	The University of Auckland	Reduce the Impact of Urban Stormwater to the Receiving Marine Environment	Professor H Qin	Peking University
Dr H Zheng	Lincoln University	Advancing UHT technology in New Zealand via NZ-China exchange programme	Professor Y Ma & Professor X Wu	Harbin Institute of Technology & Jinan University
Dr YW Wen	The University of Auckland	Risk prediction for lung cancer using multi-level high-dimensional genetic data	Professor Z Li	Dalian Medical University
Dr GY Wang	Auckland University of Technology	Heroin-related effect on reward regulation and executive function	Professor L Yang	Northwestern Normal University
Professor M Bhatia	University of Otago	Collaboration Beyond Borders to Investigate Pancreatic Inflammation	Professor J Sun	Jiangnan University