Travel Grants 2019
Dr Jesse Ashton
Dept. of Physiology, The University of Auckland
To attend the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 40th Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, USA, 8 – 11 May 2019.
Dr Ghader Bashiri
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland
To attend the Gordon Research Conference on ‘Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways’, Waterview Valley, New Hampshire, USA, 20 – 26 July 2019.
Dr Elizabeth Berryman
General Medicine, Waitemata District Health Board
To attend the International Conference of Digital Health, Houston, USA, 24 – 25 April 2019.
Dr Cherie Blenkiron
Dept. of Molecular Medicine & Pathology, The University of Auckland
To attend the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) 2019 meeting, Kyoto, Japan, 24 – 28 April 2019 and the ISBER2019 annual meeting, Shanghai, China, 7 – 10 May 2019.
Dr Robert Cartwright
Oncology – Cancer Trials New Zealand
To attend the Society for Clinical Data Management EMEA 2019 conference, Berlin, Germany, 23 – 25 October 2019.
Dr Erin Cawston
Brain Research New Zealand
Laboratory visits to Professor Henrik Zetterberg, Gottenburg, Sweden and Professor Charlotte Teunissen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 18 October – 5 November 2019.
Associate Professor James Fisher
Dept. of Physiology, The University of Auckland
To attend the Experimental Biology 2019 conference, Orlando, USA, 6 – 9 April, 2019.
Dr Peter Freestone
Dept. of Physiology, The University of Auckland
To attend the Society for Neuroscience annual conference, Chicago, USA, 16 – 23 October 2019.
Associate Professor Michael Hay
Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre, The University of Auckland
To attend (as a keynote speaker) the 16th International Congress of Radiation Research, Manchester, UK, 24 – 29 August 2019.
Associate Professor Sarah Hetrick
Dept. of Psychological Medicine, The University of Auckland
To attend the International Society of Suicide Prevention International 30th World Congress, Derry, Northern Ireland, 17 – 21 September 2019.
Dr Joanna James
Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, The University of Auckland
Visit to Oxford and Cambridge, UK & Vienna, Austria, to meet with collaborators, examine a rare collection of specimens, and attend the ESHRE meeting, 14 – 28 June 2019.
Dr Hannah Kersten
School of Optometry & Vision Science, The University of Auckland
To attend the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 28 April – 2 May 2019.
Dr Annette Lasham
Dept. of Molecular Medicine & Pathology, The University of Auckland
To attend the International p53/p63/p73 Isoforms Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 31 October – 8 November 2019.
Dr Amy McCaughey-Chapman
Dept. of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, The University of Auckland
To attend the joint ASSCR-AGCTS-ISCT scientific meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 13 – 15 November 2019.
Dr David Musson
Dept. of Medicine, The University of Auckland
To attend (as an invited speaker) the Tissue Engineering and TERMIS EU 2019 meeting, Rhodes, Greece, 27 – 31 May 2019, and to visit a potential collaborator, Basel, Switzerland, 2 – 3 June 2019.
Dr Julia Robertson
Dept. of Molecular Medicine & Pathology, The University of Auckland
To attend the Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Belfast, UK, 7 – 12 April 2019.
Dr Augusto Simoes-Barbosa
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland
To attend (as invited speaker) The Great Wall Symposium 2019, Paris, France, 23-29 September 2019.
Dr Simon Swift
Dept. of Molecular Medicine & Pathology, The University of Auckland
To attend the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) 2019 meeting, Kyoto, Japan, 24 – 28 April 2019.
Professor Mark Vickers
Liggins Institute, The University of Auckland
To attend the 11th World Congress on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), Melbourne, Australia, 20 – 23 October 2019.