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Recipients April 2016 Call

Catalyst Seeding General

Number of received proposals: 69

Number of funded proposals: 20

 

New Zealand PI

Institution

Project Title

Funding (GST Excl)

Months

Collaborator Countries

Dr Laura Revell

Bodeker Scientific

Making planet B: simulating options for engineering Mars’ atmosphere

49150

24

SWITZERLAND

Dr Xavier Pochon

Cawthron Institute

Plankton Planet – Sail4Science: Toward a holistic, integrated eco-morpho-genetic citizen sampling of the world oceans’ plankton

80000

24

FRANCE, USA

Dr Richard Kellett

GNS

Faults and Cities; Finding Out What Lies Below

71000

24

GERMANY

Dr Daniel Tompkins

Landcare Research

Vaccine development to prevent growing impacts of tick-borne diseases to New Zealand’s livestock industries

35000

12

AUSTRALIA, USA

Professor Hong Di

Lincoln University

Ammonia oxidisers and denitrifiers in soil and their relationships with nitrous oxide emissions

80000

24

CHINA

Dr Andres Gutierrez-Rodriguez

NIWA

Integrating oceanography and molecular biology to develop an Ecosystem framework for the NZ EEZ

77500

24

FRANCE

Dr Matthew Pinkerton

NIWA

Radiometric sensors for measuring coastal and estuarine water quality and habitats from drones

53030

24

GERMANY

Dr Geoffroy Lamarche

NIWA

Building capability for in situ quantitative characterisation of the ocean water column using acoustic multibeam backscatter data

72670

24

AUSTRALIA, FRANCE

Dr Emma Jones

NIWA

Predictive selectivity tools to enhance sustainability of inshore fisheries

64500

24

DENMARK

Dr Andrew Vogt

Scion

Computer Aided Material Prediction Modelling to Accelerate Product Development

39900

24

AUSTRALIA

Dr Mathias Sorieul

Scion

A world leading partnership to create a protein binder: reinforcing the interface between lignocellulosic fibres and biobased plastic for use in high performance, biobased composites.

40200

19

ISRAEL

Associate Professor P Cao

The University of Auckland

Powder conditioning for additive manufacturing

74000

24

CHINA

Professor Paul Kench

The University of Auckland

Drowning islands? Physically modelling the response of atoll islands to sea level rise.

78080

24

UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Hilary Sheppard

The University of Auckland

Unleashing the full potential of T cells for immunotherapy treatment of cancer patients; a new collaboration between the Maurice Wilkins Centre, Auckland, NZ with the Weatherall Institute for Molecular Medicine, Oxford, UK.

80000

24

UNITED KINGDOM

Professor Xun Xu

The University of Auckland

Cloud-enabled Cyber-Physical Production Systems (C2P2S)

80000

24

GERMANY, SWEDEN, UNITED KINGDOM

Associate Professor Ashvin Thambyah

The University of Auckland

DEFINING THE PRE-TO-EARLY OSTEOARTHRITIS (OA) STATE IN THE HUMAN JOINT

75626

24

AUSTRALIA

Professor Cynthia Farquhar

The University of Auckland

Prioritising research uncertainties and developing core outcomes in endometriosis.

79350

24

UNITED KINGDOM

Dr SL Masters

University of Canterbury

Direct Molecular Imaging of Gas-Phase Macromolecular Biological Systems

30250

24

GERMANY

Dr Andreea Calude

University of Waikato

The Evolution of Language

13900

24

GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Wayne Linklater

Victoria University

Understanding and exploiting the urinary proteins of New Zealand’s leading mammal pest

79980

24

UNITED KINGDOM