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Recipients July 2016 Call

Catalyst: Seeding 

 Programme

Number of received proposals

Number of funded proposals

General

57

12

Dumont d’Urville NZ-France Science & Technology Support Programme

New Zealand – Japan Joint Research Programme

13

 

13

4

 

3

Total

83

19

Catalyst: Seeding General

New Zealand PI

Institution

Project Title

Funding (GST Excl)

Months

Collaborator Countries

Professor R. J. Siegert

Auckland University of Technology

An Integrated Mind-Brain-Body Approach to Health and Wellbeing

79995

24

UNITED KINGDOM

Associate Professor K Nemeth

Massey University

What is in the throat of a volcano? Understanding small volume volcanoes through examples from Japan and New Zealand

77520

24

JAPAN

Dr G R Colborne

Massey University

Modelling breakdown of the musculoskeletal system in working dogs and horses

32800

12

AUSTRIA, BELGIUM, DENMARK

Professor C J White

Massey University

Investing in Human Capital: Growing Workforce Expertise in Speaking Mandarin

63400

24

CHINA

Dr  Müller

Plant and Food Research

Better groundwater management in New Zealand and California: Sharing experiences from policy implementation to science tools

74350

24

USA

Dr D Chagné

Plant and Food Research

Computational methods for polyploid genetics

79750

24

THE NETHERLANDS, USA

Dr A J McDaid

The University of Auckland

Establishing a joint clinical research programme with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago relating to the integration of neuroscience and robotics

80000

24

USA

Professor P D Donaldson

The University of Auckland

A new focus on the age dependent changes to the optical properties of the ocular lens: the role of water transport

40000

24

USA

Professor D L Wiltshire

University of Canterbury

Relativistic Lagrangian perturbation theory and foundations of early Universe cosmology

71984

24

FRANCE

Professor Alison Downard

University of Canterbury

Novel Coatings to Control the Rate of Corrosion of Magnesium Implants.

30600

24

GERMANY

Dr D Schwenke

University of Otago

The therapeutic role of ghrelin for promoting angiogenesis in a diabetic animal model of critical limb ischemia

79546

24

JAPAN

Dr G Owen

Victoria University of Wellington

Exploring the chemical and genetic diversity of New Zealand lichens and their microbial communities.

80000

24

USA

Dumont d’Urville NZ-France Science & Technology Support Programme

New Zealand PI

Institution

Project Title

Funding (GST Excl)

Months

France

Professor G Blackman

AUT

Switchable molecules based on electron transfer processes

12000

24

Dr Corine Mathoniere, University of Bordeaux

Dr D Sellier

Scion

Simulation of sugar transport in tree phloem

11500

24

Associate Professor Youcef Mammeri, Amienois Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Fundamental

Professor R Archer

The University of Auckland

Joint inversion of Magnetotelluric surveys with geothermal well data

12000

24

Professor Pascal Tarits, University of Western Brittany

Professor T Nann

Victoria University of Wellington

Metallopolymers: a new electrode material for fuel cells

12000

24

Mrs Sara Cavaliere, Université de Montpellier 

New Zealand – Japan Joint Research Programme

New Zealand PI

Institution

Project Title

Funding (GST Excl)

Months

Japan

Dr Uwe Morgenstern

GNS Science

Quantifying groundwater residence time and storage volume by
isotope and noble gas as tracers

39900

18

Professor Maki Tsujimura, University of Tsukuba

Dr S C Webb

Cawthron Institute

Exploring Apicomplexan X (APX) and Bonamia parasites in economically important shellfish fisheries

39420

24

Assistant Professor Kevin Wakeman, Hokkaido University

Dr D.N. Wells

AgResearch

Production of PERV-free pig embryos by somatic cell nuclear transfer

60000

24

Thanh Quang Dang-Nguyen, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization