Recipients July 2021
Catalyst: Seeding
Funding round overview
| Programme | Number of received proposals | Number of funded proposals |
| General | 29 | 7 |
| JSPS Joint Research Project | 9 | 3 |
Catalyst: Seeding General
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project Title | Funding (GST Excl) | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Professor Jun Lu | Auckland University of Technology | Searching bioactive compounds from food and development of functional food | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Xu Xu, Distinguished Professor Shaoping Nie, Professor Jinyao Li, Associate Professor Yu Zhao, Professor Tao Feng, Professor Weibiao Zhou | Shenzhen University, Nanchang University, Xinjiang University, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai Institute of Technology, National University of Singapore | CHINA, CHINA, CHINA, CHINA, CHINA, SINGAPORE |
| Dr Thao Le | Auckland University of Technology | Wood hemicellulose - a new coating material to create novel functional food ingredients | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Kirsi Mikkonen, Dr Thao Ho, Professor Michelle Colgrave | University of Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Edith Cowan University | FINLAND, FINLAND, AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Anne Rolton Vignier | Cawthron Institute | Developing in vitro fish and bivalve assays for toxin screening | 78,000 | 24 | Dr Hélène Hégaret, Dr Malwenn Lassudrie | LEMAR- CNRS, IFREMER- Concarneau | FRANCE |
| Dr Louis Tremblay | Cawthron Institute | Novel biological and chemical methods to identify stormwater pollutants | 79,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Mayuko Yagishita, Dr Grant Northcott, Mrs Hannah Ludlow, Dr Satoshi Endo | Prefectural University of Hiroshima, Northcott Research Consultants Limited, Napier City Council, National Institute for Environmental Studies | JAPAN |
| Professor Andrew Jeffs | The University of Auckland | Restorative Aquaculture: Making Positive Productivity for the Marine Environment | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Carrie Byron | University of New England | USA |
| Dr Timothy Allison | University of Canterbury | New approach to understand how disease-causing bacteria infect humans | 80,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Erik Marklund, Professor Justin Benesch | Uppsala University, University of Oxford | SWEDEN, UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Amandine Sabadel | University of Otago | Kai ika in a changing ocean: understanding parasite-fish trophic interactions to inform environmental and human health policies | 80,000 | 20 | Dr Pierre Cresson, Dr Melanie Gay, Dr Pablo Escobar-Flores, Dr Henry Lane | Centre Ifremer Manche Mer du Nord, Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire, NIWA, NIWA | FRANCE |
New Zealand – Japan Joint Research Project
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project Title | Funding (GST Excl) | Months | Japanese Collaborator(s) |
| Dr Richard Levy | GNS Science | Building our Antarctic research future through scientific drilling, paleoclimate studies, and ice sheet modelling | 60,000 | 24 | Associate Professor Yusuke Suganuma, National Institute of Polar Research |
| Professor Santiago Pujol | University of Canterbury | Workshops on Rapid Post-Disaster Sensor-Based Building Diagnosis | 60,000 | 24 | Professor Koichi Kusunoki, The University of Tokyo |
| Dr Zhenan Jiang | Victoria University of Wellington | Electromagnetic characteristics of magnesium-diboride superconducting wires for all - superconducting rotating machines for hybrid electric aircraft | 60,000 | 24 | Professor Naoyuki Amemiya, Kyoto University |