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A new smartphone app could help bridge the gap between young people in distress seeking help for self-harm and support services. These high tech tools are a small but important part of bigger programmes and efforts to prevent self-harm. Since they’re developed by and with youth, we know there will be high uptake and use by them and their peers. Associate Professor Sarah Hetrick Watch Associate Professor Sarah Hetrick on The AM Show where she talks about her research and hopes for improving the well-being of New Zealand’s youth. Associate Professor Sarah Hetrick recently returned to New Zealand with AMRF’s Douglas Goodfellow Repatriation Fellowship, generously supported by donors like you. If you need to talk to someone right now free call or text 1737 or 0800 1737 1737.

Auckland Medical Research Foundation's latest success stories and awarded grants. Click image below to view or download the PDF file.

Dr Susann Beier is a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland. Her research to improve our understanding of and develop treatments for cardiovascular stenting is an AMRF Success Story, with life saving improvements to treatments for the world’s largest health killer: coronary artery disease. The AMRF is pleased to support Dr Beier’s research with a project award, “Improving Stenting Outcomes”. "Patient lives are on the line. 8% of stents fail – one size does not fit all. We are accounting for the individual patient differences in order to personalise the treatment approach. This AMRF funding will be of tremendous value. "

Auckland Medical Research Foundation's latest success stories and awarded grants. Click image below to view or download the PDF file.

"I’m extraordinarily grateful to the AMRF and the Kellaway Fellowship to be able to test our findings and recommendations" Professor Boyd Swinburn Prof Boyd Swinburn is a researcher in the School of Population Health at the University of Auckland. His work to improve our understanding and responses to obesity, under-nutrition and climate change is an AMRF Success Story. The AMRF is pleased to support Prof Swinburn’s research with a Kellaway Medical Research Fellowship. He will travel the world, particularly to low and middle income countries, to undertake validity testing of the findings of the Lancet Commission on Obesity, which met in Auckland in July 2017. Watch Professor Boyd Swinburn's video below.

Stroke sufferers have new hope with a successful clot retrieval technique being pioneered around New Zealand. Professor Alan Barber at the University of Auckland and colleagues at hospitals in the main centres are performing this technique to save lives and reduce the need for rehabilitation. Professor Barber’s research into ischaemic stroke, and development of this technique in particular, will make a big impact on the health of thousands of patients in New Zealand and worldwide, by more quickly removing blockages in the brain’s blood vessels, thus reducing damage to brain tissue and saving valuable neurons. Each successful procedure can reduce the clot’s oxygen-depriving impact on the brain, improve a patient’s recovery from stroke and save thousands in dollars and days of hospital care and rehabilitation. Hear from the researchers and surgeons and watch how the procedure removes the clot in the recording of this recent free event, “Heart Attacks and Stroke: Getting the Blood Flowing Again“.