Recipients January 2022
Catalyst: Seeding
Funding round overview
| Programme | Number of received proposals | Number of funded proposals |
| General | 27 | 9 |
Catalyst: Seeding General
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project Title | Funding (GST Excl) | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Dr Tom Stewart | Auckland University of Technology | Advancing the assessment of physical literacy in children: An international collaboration | 79,999 | 24 | Dr Wesley O’Brien, Professor Kelly Mackintosh, Professor Michael Duncan, Dr Justin Richards, Associate Professor Lisa Barnett | University College Cork, Swansea University, Coventry University, Victoria University Wellington, Deakin University | IRELAND, UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED KINGDOM, NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Roshan Khadka | Plant and Food Research | Bionanomaterials for self-powered wearable electronics | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Jin-Heong Yim | Kongju National University | KOREA |
| Dr Denise Conroy | Plant and Food Research | Eat the Future- Examining consumer appetite for cellular agriculture meat, fish, and fruit | 77,000 | 24 | Dr Felix Septianto | University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Enrique del Rey Castillo | The University of Auckland | Reducing the carbon footprint of concrete through cement substitution with natural volcanic materials | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Maria Juenger, Mr Joseph Thomas |
The University of Texas at Austin, Magmatics, Natural Pozzolana Association |
USA |
| Dr Kang Huang | The University of Auckland | Daylight-driven self-sanitizing materials to prevent food cross-contamination: spectral and spatiotemporal tuning of ROS production | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Gang Sun | University of California, Davis | USA |
| Dr Ingrid Ukstins | The University of Auckland | Automating Hyperspectral Image Analysis for Aerial Exploration | 80,000 | 24 |
Professor David Wettergreen, Professor Jeffrey Moersch, Dr Christopher Hamilton |
Carnegie Mellon University, University of Tennessee, University of Arizona | USA |
| Associate Professor Ilze Ziedins | The University of Auckland | Tired of waiting? Data-informed dynamic models for congestion control | 74,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Riccardo Mogre | Durham University | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Brian Guo | University of Canterbury | Measuring and modelling situation awareness for safe human-robot collaboration: an immersive virtual reality approach | 62,840 | 24 | Associate Professor Yang Miang Goh | National University of Singapore | SINGAPORE |
| Dr Sarah Baird | University of Otago | Development of an antibody targeted therapy for triple negative breast cancer: the function and disruption of NgR3 | 78,126 | 24 | Distinguished Professor Lance Liotta, Dr Carl Shelley | George Mason University, Leukemia Therapeutics LLC | USA |