2026 MedSci Congress Symposium Support

Clinical and research training to advance Moyamoya care in New Zealand

Epigenetic liquid biopsy for bladder cancer recurrence

Identifying novel treatments for cardiovascular disease

AMRF Best Emerging Researcher - Evaluating primary care practice's LCS smoking history accuracy for Māori patients - implications for a future lung cancer screening programme

AMRF Best Senior Researcher - A qualitative study of pre-diagnostic experiences and awareness of endometrial cancer among wāhine Māori and pacific women in Auckland Health Districts

AMRF Best Abstract Award - Child protection in dental practice: A review of legal and professional responsibilities in Aotearoa

AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award - Exploring the cortical dynamics of walking using mobile EEG in real-world environment

AMRF Emerging Researcher Award - Celebrating a rising investigator whose early contributions show outstanding promise for impact and leadership

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AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award - Investigating the use of lysolecithin to model demyelination in sagittal rat brain organotypic slice cultures

AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award - Harm and harm reduction in the context of psilocybin mushroom use

AMRF Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award - Evaluation of a midwifery student employment model in Aotearoa: Experiences of students and registered midwives

AMRF Best Presentation Award - Does reduced parasympathetic activity limit exercise capacity in heart failure? A role for vagal co-transmitter VIP

Advancing diastolic function assessment in atrial fibrillation with artificial intelligence - an international multicentre study

Co-funded with the Heart Foundation

Collaborative visits across Europe and advancement of our brain cancer research programme

Advancing digital therapeutics and clinical risk prediction using wearable data

Research support for Dr Garland's Douglas Goodfellow Medical Research Fellowship - Evaluating the use of topical sevoflurane

Visit by Prof T Alexander Quinn to the University of Auckland

PHARMACOVIGILANCE FOR NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS: THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE NATURAL HEALTH PRODUCTS INDUSTRY IN NEW ZEALAND

In a new study on safety monitoring (known as pharmacovigilance) for natural health products (NHPs), researchers from the University of Auckland School of Pharmacy are exploring the views and experiences of key stakeholders on this topic, including the contributions that the NHPs industry makes. Through interviews and surveys with key stakeholders, such as consumers of NHPs, industry representatives, medicines regulators, and pharmacovigilance professionals, the research attempts to understand the current and potential contributions that the NHPs industry makes towards safety monitoring for NHPs. In addition, the research will explore these stakeholders' views on recent regulatory changes regarding NHPs, with a focus on safety monitoring obligations and responsibilities of the industry. Finally, the research aims to gather input on designing a new, more proactive method for the safety monitoring of NHPs tailored to the New Zealand context. Given recent shifts in the regulatory situation for NHPs and future plans by the Government for alternative new regulations for NHPs, this research is timely in collecting insights that can inform policy makers and medicines regulators about the needs and challenges of safety monitoring for NHPs in New Zealand.

Funded by: The Goodfellow Foundation’s Campbell Maclaurin and Phil Barham fund for research in the field of primary care, including aged residential care.

AMRF Best Emerging Researcher - Your body is your home: The feasibility of an intuitive eating intervention for early adolescents

AMRF Best Senior Researcher - Te Oranga Pūkahukahua: Interim results of a randomised clinical trail of primary care versus central hub-based invitation to lung cancer screening for eligible Māori participants

AMRF Best Student/Emerging Research Award - Demographic, ethnic and imaging patterns in Moyamoya Disease

2024 AMRF Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award - Enduring impacts of placental extracellular vesicles on the maternal cardiovascular system in spontaneously hypertensive rats

2024 AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award - Set and setting the stage: Expectancies of individuals with MDD about to undertake LSD microdosing

2024 AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award - Development of a non-invasive embryo quality evaluation tool for equine embryos

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AMRF Best Presentation Award - 4D flow cardiovascular magnetic resonance cardia flows. A multicohort New Zealand based study

Visit of Dr Jamie Kitt to raise awareness of the risk of cardiovascular disease, and potential treatment, after preeclampsia

Fellowship to complete a master's degree in practical ethics at the University of Oxford, UK

Clinical pharmacology/pharmacometrics training and research fellowship

Visit of Prof Raina Fichorova to the University of Auckland and bi-direction research exchange

AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award - A cell-based platform for studying the effects of ultrasound on neurons following stretch research

AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award - Treating impetigo with antiseptics, replacing antibiotics (TIARA): A randomised controlled trial comparing topical impetigo treatments

AMRF Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award - Novel generation of three-dimensional brain spheroids using direct cell reprogramming

Support for the 49th Annual Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society Meeting's plenary lectures speaker, Prof Frances Northington from John Hopkins University

AMRF Best Emerging Researcher - A decision support system at adult ED triage for predicting health outcomes

AMRF Best Senior Researcher - Changes in hospital admission for stroke: findings from the ARCOS studies (1981-2022)

AMRF Best Research Presentation Award - Placental extracellular vesicles provide transient protection against cardiovascular disease development in rodents

Research support for her Douglas Goodfellow Medical Research Fellowship - Physiologic reserve and emergency laparotomy

Research support for Dr Maris' AMRF Postdoctoral Fellowship - Inter-tissue antioxidant exchange in the eye

Visit of Assoc Prof Christopher Moraes from the Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University, Canada, to the University of Auckland for collaborative research

AMRF Best Research Presentation Award - Inhibiting the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway preventing age-related cognitive and retinal decline

Best Oral Presentation Award in Population Health - Achieving Pae Ora for children surviving injury: a call to action

Best Oral Presentation Award in Māori Health Research - Taiohi and whānau hīkoi from the community into acute mental health and addictions: a Kaupapa Māori study

AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award - The use of optical coherence tomography to visualise the inner ear

AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner Up Award - Detrimental effects of slow rewarming after therapeutic hypothermia for cerebral ischemia in near-term fetal sheep

AMRF Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award - Brain temperature as a measure of neuroinflammation: assessment using whole-brain magnetic resonance spectroscopy

To develop expertise in fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases through overseas experience and collaboration

Research support for Dr Nolan's Douglas Goodfellow Repatriation Fellowship - Development of an advanced 3D model of breast cancer using tumour organoids

Support for the 2022 Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association (ANZPRA) satellite meeting

Unravelling mechanisms of leading causes of blindness and cataract and myopia using the power of zebra fish

Effect of mitotempo, a mitochondria-targeted antioxidant, in protecting against age-related sensory hair cell degeneration and hearing loss in mice

One Year Extension to the Davis and Carr Senior Research Fellowship awarded in 2020 - Parkinson's disease research programme: To discover potential new therapies for Parkinson's Disease

AMRF Best Research Presentation Award: Needle-free capillary blood sampling using jet injection

Research support for her Postdoctoral Fellowship titled ‘Multi-omics and biomarkers to personalise risk prediction and therapy in acute coronary syndromes’’.

Research support for her Postdoctoral Fellowship titled ‘TWIST 3: Validation of the Time to Walking Independently after Stroke tool’.

How Do Children and Families Negotiate Roles in Asthma Self-Management?

New insights into presbyopia – Developing and validating a spin test device to measure regional differences in lens stiffness.

Excellence in Research Award - Best Emerging Researcher at the 2021 Waitematā DHB health Excellence Awards: Development of a pharmacist-facilitated medicines review intervention for community-dwelling Māori older adults in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Excellence in Research Award - Best Senior Researcher at the 2021 Waitematā DHB health Excellence Awards: Māori perspectives on a potential lung cancer screening programme.

Harvard Medical School, USA, June 2020-May 2021

Participation in the global clinical scholars research training programme of advanced training in health care research and methods

Support for Australian and New Zealand Placental Research Association satellite meeting

Fungal natural products as a source of novel antibiotics

Heart rate sensitivity evaluation of a 3D amplified-MRI method to reveal subtle brain biomechanics and pathologies

Best Overall Student/Emerging Researcher Award at the 2020 Counties Manukau DHB Research Week: Rehabilitation Following Flexor Pollicis Longus (FPL) Tendon Repair: A Pilot Study Comparing Early Active Mobilisation (EAM) with Immobilisation (IM).

AMRF Doctoral Oral Presentation Runner up Award: Validating neuroimaging to detect neuroinflammation in vivo.

AMRF Best Poster Presentation Award: Tonabersat is neuroprotective after hypoxia-ischaemia in neonatal rats

AMRF Outstanding Emerging Researcher Award: Understanding Obesity's Harmful Effects on Tendon Healing in a Rat Rotator Cuff Tear Model.

Funded by: Wellington Sisters Charitable Trust

AMRF Best Research Presentation Award: blinking, clinical markers and symptoms of dry eye disease, and screen use habits of young attendees of a gaming convention in Auckland, NZ.

Funded by: Wellington Sisters Charitable Trust

One year extension of Dr Ryan's Edith C. Coan Posdoctoral Fellowship titled ‘Early changes in frontotemporal dementia’.

Research support for Dr Holtkamp's Postdoctoral Fellowship titled ‘Probing the biochemistry of skin with lasers, light scattering and molecular ionisation’

Kelliher Charitable Trust Emerging Research Start-Up Award

Research support for Dr Freestone's Davis & Carr Senior Research Fellowship titled ‘Parkinson’s disease research programme: To discover potential new therapies for Parkinson's disease’

Kelliher Charitable Trust Emerging Researcher Start-Up Awards

AMRF Best Directorate Award - Research Presentations from the Perioperative Directorate

Emerging Researcher Award at the 2019 Waitematā DHB Health Excellence Awards: WDHB Skin Service: GP Surgeon Scheme (GPSI), an effective model of care.

Best Oral Presentation (Research) Award at the 2019 Waitematā DHB Health Excellence Awards: The real costs of swallowing complaints in a public health system.

To attend the FENS 2020 conference in Glasgow, Scotland, 11 – 15 July 2020.

To attend a conference to present her research in the field of infection and immunity.

To attend the 67th Annual Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI) in Vancouver, Canada, 10 – 14 March 2020.

To attend a conference to present her research titled ‘Association between maternal depression symptoms and child telomere length: Evidence from Growing Up in New Zealand’

Research support for her Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘A novel peptide delivery platform for the development of mucosal vaccines’

Research support for her Postdoctoral Fellowship ‘Ultrasound in asymptomatic hyperuricemia’

To develop an Auckland-based research programme in MRI-guided radiotherapy planning through overseas experience and collaboration.

ECHO zone Rotorua.