Travel Grants

Visit collaborators at Vrije Universiteit Brussels and Ghent University, Belgium, and to attend and present at the McGill International Palliative Care Congress Montreal, Canada, 21 September - 12 October 2026

To attend and present at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference, Bordeaux, France, and visit collaborators at Imperial College London, UK and Uppsala University, Sweden, 5 May - 23 June 2026

To attend and present at the International Gastrointestinal Electrophysiology Society Conference and the Digestive Disease Week Conference, Chicago, USA, 2 - 5 May 2026

To attend and present at Wings for Life, Salzburg, Austria, research presentation at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), and advanced technical training at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behaviour (MPINB) in two photon microscopy to bring the microscope to NZ for set up at the University of Auckland, 10 April - 16 May 2026

To attend and present at the American Thoracic Society International Conference, Orlando, Florida, 18 - 21 May 2026

To attend and present at the 30th celebration of the Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group symposium and attend ESHRE, London, UK, 4 - 8 July 2026

To attend and present at the International Society for Eye Research (ISER), Valencia, Spain, 23-27 August 2026; Laboratory visit to the Institute of Optics “Daza de Valdés” of the Spanish National Research Council (IO-CSIC); To attend and present at the International Society for Presbyopia (ISOP) Annual Conference in London, UK, 10 Sept 2026

To attend and present at the International Society for Eye Research, Valenica, Spain, 23 - 27 August 2026

Visit collaborators at the Cicely Saunders Institute, Kings College London, UK, and attend and present at the 2026 European Association of Palliative Care Congress (EPAC), Prague, Czech Republic, 1 - 18 May 2026

Visit multiple collaborators across the USA and attend and present at the American Academy of Audiology Annual Convention, San Antonio, USA, 10 March - 26 April 2026

To attend and present at ICOPA 2026, Montreal, Canada and Ongoing Strategic Collaboration with Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, 4 - 24 August 2026

To attend and present at the American Epilepsy Society 2026, Denver, USA, meet with collaborators and visit Dr Daniel Goldenholz lab in Harvard, Boston, USA, 1 - 12 Dec 2026

Attendance and presentation at the International Children's Palliative Care Network Meeting, Manila, Philippines, 12 – 15 November 2025.

Attendance and presentation of an invited talk at the 40th Congress of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS), Frankfurt, Germany, and laboratory visits, 16 August – 27 September 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the Conference ISAC 2025, Punta arenas, Chile, 21 – 24 October 2025, and at the 1st International Meeting of Biological and Health Sciences (IBHS), Vitoria-ES, Brazil, 29 – 31 October 2025.

Attendance and Presentation at the 4S Conference in Seattle, WA, USA and visit the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada for research collaboration and guest lecture, 1 – 13 September 2025.

Attendance and Presentation at the Nurse Practitioners Association of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 22 September – 4 October 2025.

Attendance and Presentation at the International Union for Physiological Sciences Conference, Frankfurt, Germany, and the International Federation for Placental Associates Conference, Erfurt, Germany, 8 – 23 September 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the International Children's Palliative Care Network Meeting, Manila, Philippines, 12 – 15 November 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the Population Approach Group of Australia and New Zealand (PAGANZ) and the International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology (IATDMCT), Singapore, 17 – 26 September 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the at the New Directions in Leukaemia Research Conference in Adelaide, Australia, 2 - 4 March 2026.

Attendance and presentation at the IUPESM World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, in Adelaide, Australia, 29 September - 3 October 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the European Society Cell and Gene Therapy congress, Sevilla, Spain, 7 – 10 October 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the Australasian Neuroscience Society Annual Scientific meeting, and the the Cellular and Molecular Advances in Neurodegeneration Meeting, Hobart, 30 November – 6 December, and visit the University of Sydney and University of Wollongong, Australia.

Attendance and presentation at the 13th World Congress on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 7 – 10 September 2025.

Attendance and presentation as an invited speaker at the 10th International Workshop on Cardiac Mechano-electric Feedback and Arrhythmias, and the 2025 edition of the Novel Optical Techniques in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Freiburg, Germany, 12 – 22 September 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society’s Conference ANZOS 2025, Perth, Australia, 19 – 22 October 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV2025), Vienna, Austria, and laboratory visits with potential collaborators, 22 - 29 April 2025.

Attendance, presentation and workshop facilitation at the biennial Lifelong Learning in Pharmacy Conference, Sydney, Australia, 7 - 10 July 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the International Family Nursing Association (IFNA) Conference in Perth, Australia, June 17 - 20 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) Annual Congress, Brisbane, Australia 17-19 March 2025; attendance and presentation at the Pre-Congress IMPACT meeting 15 -16 March 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the 53rd IUPAC General Assembly (53GA) and 50th World Chemistry Congress (50WCC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7 - 20 July 2025.

Collaborative research project work, Perth; and attendance and presentation at the Australasian Pain Society Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 9 - 16 April 2025.

Attendance and presentation for AD/PD 2025: Striving for a Better Future for All Those Affected by Neurodegenerative Diseases, 1-5 April 2025, Vienna, Austria; Synuclein meeting 8-11 April 2025, Cambridge, UK; three European laboratory visits.

Attendance, convenor and presentation at PAGANZ 2025 & IATDMCT 2025 congress, Singapore, 20 - 24 September 2025.

Attendance, presentation and workshop facilitation at the biennial Lifelong Learning in Pharmacy Conference, Sydney, Australia, 7 - 10 July 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the World Tobacco Conference 2025, Dublin, Ireland, 23 - 25 June 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the 22nd Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases, Brisbane, Australia, 1 - 5 June 2025.

Attendance and Presentation at the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Annual Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 24 - 28 June 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the 4th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference 2025 hosted by the Lowitja Institute, Kaurna Country, Adelaide, Australia, 16 - 19 June 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the International Society of Geographical and Epidemiological Ophthalmology (ISGEO) Congress 2025, and to attend the '2030 IN SIGHT LIVE' meeting, Kathmandu, Nepal27 April - 1 May 2025.

Attendance and presentation at the 21st International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry (ICBIC 21), Los Angeles, USA, 28 July - 1 August 2025.

Invited Seminar and establish a new collaboration at Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE), Singapore, 2 - 11 December 2024

Attendance and presentation at the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children (ESMAC) conference, Oslo, Norway, 9 - 14 September 2024

Attendance and presentation at the Australasian Winter Conference for Brain Research (AWCBR), Queenstown, New Zealand, 31 August - 4 September 2024

Attendance and presentation at the 19th Annual Conference of the International Stillbirth Alliance, steering committee meeting and other activities, Columbo, Sri Lanka, 1 - 5 November 2024

Attendance and presentation at the Queenstown Research Week Cancer Satellite Meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand, 31 August - 1 September 2024

Attendance and presentation at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Immuno-Oncology Congress 2024, Geneva, Switzerland and collaborator visit, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 11 - 19 December 2024

Attendance and presentation at the International Congress on Eye Research Biennial Conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21 - 24 October 2024

Attendance and presentation at the Dysphagia Research Society Annual Conference and laboratory visit, Philadelphia, USA, 25 - 28th March 2025

Attendance and presentation at the Innovations in Health Psychology invited meeting, Clyde, New Zealand, 16 - 21 March 2025

Attendance and participation at the Interdisciplinary Seminar on Neurodegenerative Disease and Vision, and laboratory visit to Universidad Santo Tomás, Santiago, Chile and XXVI Biennial Meeting of the International Society for Eye Research (ISER), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12 - 25 October 2024

Attendance and presentation at the Health Scares Conference, London, UK, 9 - 12 November 2024

Attendance and presentation at the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Conference (Stuttgart), visits labs of Dr. Okan Avci (Stuttgart) and Prof. Christian Cyron (Hamburg), and Humboldt meets Leibniz network symposium (Hannover), Germany, September 2024

Attendance and presentation at the 35th International Symposium on ALS/MND, Montreal, Canada, 6 - 8 December 2024

Attendance and presentation at the International Society of Eye Research Biennial Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19 - 25 August 2024

Attendance and presentation at the biennial Health Service Research (HSR) Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 3 - 7 December 2024

Attendance and presentation at the International Society of Eye Research Meeting, and Velux grant discussions with collaborators, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 18 - 27 October 2024

Attendance and participation at the Virtual Physiological Human Conference, Stuttgart, Computing in Cardiology Conference, Karlsruhe, and Cardiac Physiome Workshop, Freiburg, Germany, 4 - 14 September 2024

Attendance and participation at the International Society for Eye Research Congress Buenos Aires, Argentina, and laboratory visit with a collaborator, Montevideo, Uruguay, 19 - 27 October 2024

Attendance and presentation at the Hershey conference on developmental brain injury in Marstrand, Sweden, and the annual Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society meeting, Nottingham, UK, 9 - 22 June 2024

Attendance and presentation at the International Gastrointestinal Electrophysiology Society Conference and the Digestive Disease Week Conference, Washington DC, USA, and a presentation at a medical device company in the USA, Lenexa USA, 16 - 27 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2024), Orlando, USA and Lab Visit at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA, 14 - 24 July 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Cochrane Colloquium 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 31 Aug - 14 Sept 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology 2024 Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, 5 - 9 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Hershey conference on developmental brain injury in Marstrand, Sweden, and the annual Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society meeting, Nottingham, UK, 9 - 22 June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the International Gastrointestinal Electrophysiology Society Conference and the Digestive Disease Week Conference, Washington DC, USA, 16 - 24 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Gordon Conference on Advances and challenges in Neurotech development and translation, Galveston, USA, 8 - 15 March 2024.

Attendance and presentation at AMEE: The International Association for Health Professions Education annual meeting, and meet with UK collaborators regarding ongoing research project, Basel, Switzerland, 23 Aug - 6 Sept 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Global Evidence Summit 2024, Prague, Czech Republic, 7 - 13 September 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the World Biomaterials Conference 2024 in Daegu, South Korea, 26 - 31 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the annual international conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Seoul, Korea, 23 - 27th June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Seattle, USA, 5 - 9 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the 2024 Meeting of Cardiac Regulatory Mechanisms Gordon Research Conference, New London, USA, 22 - 29 June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand (PSANZ) Annual Congress, Christchurch, NZ, 7 - 10 April 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the 2024 American Physiology SUMMIT, Long Beach, USA, 3 - 8 April 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the International Conference on Food and Digestion (ICFD) 2024, Porto, Portugal, 6 - 12 April 2024.

Collaborative research visit to Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation and King's College London to explore virtual visiting to improve equity of family access to intensive care, London, UK, 1 Sept - 13 Oct 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the I2024 MR in RT symposium, Rome, Italy, and the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO 2024), Glasgow, UK and a visit to UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1 Apr - 8 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV 2024), Melbourne, Australia, 7 - 13 May 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT) annual conference, Vancouver, Canada, 29 May - 1 June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the ‘2030 IN SIGHT LIVE 2024’ event organised by the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Mexico City, Mexico, 23 - 29 June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the OARSI World Congress on Osteoarthritis 2024, Vienna, Austria, 18 - 21 April 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Hershey Conference on Developmental Brain Injury, Marstrand, Sweden, 11 - 14 June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the New Antibacterial Discovery and Development Gordon Research Conference, Ventura, USA, 11 - 22 Mar 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) Conference then meetings at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Indigenous Health and Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON), Washington DC and Baltimore Maryland, USA, 26 May.

Attendance and presentation at the Hershey conference on developmental brain injury in Marstrand, Sweden, and the annual Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society meeting, Nottingham, UK, 9 - 22 June 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the Society of NeuroOncology Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 15 - 19 November 2023.

Accommodation costs to attend and present at the Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room, and to meet with co-authors regarding major new Textbook, New York, USA, 7 - 13 September 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the 58th Inner Ear Biology Workshop, London, UK, 3 - 5 September 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Australia and New Zealand Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ANZSEV 2023), Adelaide, Australia, 7 - 11 November 2023.

Attendance and presentation at Queenstown Research Week MedSci Congress 2023, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 - 30 August 2023.

Attendance and invited presentation at the Gout, Hyperuricemia and Crystal-Associated Disease Network (GCAN) conference, laboratory visit to establish collaboration, and attendance and presentation at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Convergence, San Diego, USA, 7 - 15 November 2023.

Collaborator visit at University of Queensland, Australia and attendance and presentation at the Australasian Neurotrauma Workshop, University of Queensland, Australia, 28 November - 3 December 2023.

Attendance and invited presentation at the International Society of Pharmacovigilance Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 6 - 9 November 2023.

Fostering and establishing research collaborations at Tilburg University, Netherlands and University of Pavia, Italy, and attendance and presentation at the 2nd Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development International Workshop on Naturalistic Experimentation of Child Development, University of London, London, UK, 2 - 25 September 2023.

Laboratory visit and presentation Columbus, USA, and attendance and presentation at the Society of Reproductive Investigations Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 7 - 16 March 2024.

Attendance and invited presentation at the International Society of Pharmacovigilance Conference, Bali, Indonesia, 6 - 9 November 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the 1st International Mass Spectrometry Imaging Society Meeting, IMSIS 2023, Montreal, Canada. 23 - 25 October 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Convergence, San Diego, USA, 10 - 15 November 2023.

Meeting with collaborators at the French Longitudinal Study of Children (ELFE), Paris, France, and attendance and presentation at the SLLS conference, Munich, Germany, 25 September - 12 October

Attendance and presentation at the 65th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology, San Diego, USA, 9 - 12 December 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Biophysical Society Meeting 2024, Philadelphia, USA, 10 - 15 February 2024.

Attendance and presentation at the 34th International Symposium on ALS/MND, Basel, Switzerland, 6 - 8th December 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the European Conference on Marine Natural Products, Granada, Spain, 3 - 8 September 2023.

Attendance and invited workshop presentation at the International Federation of Placenta Associations meeting, Rotorua, New Zealand 5 - 8 September 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the 12th International Conference on Functional Imaging and Modelling of the Heart (FIMH), Lyon, France and a laboratory visit to King's College London/Barts Health NHS, London, UK, 19 June - 14 July 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the 2023 European Society of Ophthalmology meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 15 - 17 June 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) World Congress on Osteoarthritis, Denver, USA, 16 - 20 March 2023.

Attendance and presentation at Spineweek 2023, Melbourne, Australia, 1 - 5 May 2023.

Attending multiple conferences on pathogens and the microbiome, and new concepts and approaches in microbiology, France, Scotland and Germany, 3 - 31 June 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the American Physiology Summit 2023, Long Beach California, USA, 20 - 23 April 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the American Physiology Summit 2023, Long Beach California, USA, 20 - 23 April 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Harm Reduction International (HRI) 2023 conference, Melbourne, Australia, 16 - 19 April 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the 10th International Meeting on Indigenous Child Health, Tulsa, USA, 24 - 26 March 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the 5th International Caparica Conference in SPLICING 2023, Caparica, Portugal, 16 - 19 July 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference 2023, Perth, Australia, 19 - 21 June 2023.

Attendance, presentation and committee activity at 19th World Congress of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology (WCP2023), Glasgow, Scotland, 2 - 7 July 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the International Basal Ganglia Society (IBAGS) triennial meeting, Stockholm, Sweden, 13 - 16 June 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the American Physiology Summit 2023, Long Beach California, USA, 20 - 23 April 2023, and visit a laboratory in Iowa.

Attendance and presentation at the Genomics of Brain Disorders Wellcome Trust Conference, Cambridge, UK, 17 - 23 May 2023, and multiple laboratory visits.

Research Visit to Institute for Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine (IEKM), Freiburg, Germany, 17-30 April 2023.

Attendance and presentation and the Neurodegeneration: New Biology Guiding the Next Generation of Therapeutic Development Conference Whistler, Canada, 15 - 19 May 2023.

Attend and present at the annual meeting of the International Society of Extracellular vesicles, Seattle, USA, 18 - 21 May 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators (ANZAPHE) Conference, Gold Coast, Australia, 26 - 19 June 2023.

Attendance and Presentation at the American Physiology Summit 2023, Long Beach California, USA, 20-23 April 2023.

Attendance and role of co-Chair at the Gordon Research meetings on "Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways", Waterville Valley, USA, 15 - 21 July 2023.

Attendance and presentation at the Asia Pacific Diabetes and Obesity meeting, Singapore, 20 - 23 November 2022.

Attendance and presentation to the Society for Neuroscience conference, San Diego, USA, 12 - 16 November 2022.

Attendance and presentation at the Fetal and Neonatal Physiological Society annual conference, Montesilvano, Italy, 20-23 September 2022.

Attendance and Presentation at the New Zealand Medical Sciences Congress in Queenstown, New Zealand, 28 Aug - 4 Sept 2022.

Strengthening international networks in eye research between NZ and South America, Chile and Uruguay, 2 Oct - 1 Nov 2022.

Meetings with two international collaborators, Paris and Marseille, France, 23 Sept - 16 Oct 2022.

To attend Queenstown Research Week 2022, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 August - 2 September 2022.

To attend the Annual International Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), Glasgow, United Kingdom, 19 - 23 June 2022.

To attend the Controlled Release Society 2022 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 11 - 15 July 2022.

To attend the 16th Congress of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB), Christchurch, New Zealand, 22 - 25 November 2021.

To attend MEDSCI NZ, Queenstown, New Zealand, 31 August 2021 - 5 September 2021.

To attend AWCBR, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 August 2021 - 5 September 2021.

To attend the 16th Congress of the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists, Christchurch, New Zealand, 21 - 25 November 2021.

To attend Queenstown Molecular Biology conference, and associated Metabolic and Heart Research satellite meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 August 2021 - 6 September 2021.

To participate in the virtual Oceanic Palliative Care Conference 2021, online, 7 - 9 September 2021.

To attend MEDSCI NZ, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 August 2021 - 3 September 2021.

To attend AWCBR, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 August 2021.

To attend the 32nd International Confederation of Midwives Virtual Triennial Congress. 30 May – 3 June 2021.

To attend MEDSCI NZ and the Advances in Microscopy satellite meeting, Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 August 2021 - 4 September 2021.

To attend the 11th World Biomaterial Congress in Glasgow, Scotland and visit to University of Freiburg, Germany, 17 - 28 May 2020 (grant declined due to Covid)..

To attend the European Health Psychology Society annual meeting, Bratislava, Slovakia, 24 - 31 August 2020 (plans to attend a rescheduled or alternative conference in 2021).

To participate in the virtual 2021 Experimental Biology conference, 27 - 30 April 2021 (alternative conference due to Covid), and to attend Queenstown Research Week, 30 August - 2 September 2021 (alternative conference due to Covid).

To attend The 13th ICBEN Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Stockholm, Sweden, 13 - 19 June 2020 (plans to attend a rescheduled or alternative conference in 2021).

To attend the Mechanisms of Anaesthesia Conference (MAC2020), Xi'an, China, 21 - 28 March 2020) (plans to attend a rescheduled or alternative conference in 2021).

To attend the International Society for Magnetic Resonance In Medicine (ISMRM) 2020 Conference, Sydney, Australia, 17 - 24 April 2020 (plans to attend a rescheduled or alternative conference in 2021).

To attend the Mammary Gland Biology Gordon Research Conference, Lucca, Italy, 7 - 12 June 2020 (grant declined due to Covid).

To participate in the virtual International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (eICDAM 2021), 8 - 12 February 2021 (conference delayed from 2020 and held in virtual format).

To attend the EFMC-ISMC 2020 XXVI EFMC International Symposium on Medicinal Chemistry, Basel, Switzerland, 6 - 10 September 2020 (grant declined due to Covid).

To attend the Metals in Medicine - Gordon Research Conference, Andover, USA, 26 June - 1 July 2022 (conference rescheduled from 2020).

To attend the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting 2020, Melbourne, Australia, 26 March - 2 April 2020 (plans to attend a rescheduled or alternative conference in 2021).

To participate in Virtual EASD 2021, 27 September – 1 October 2021 (conference held in virtual format), and to attend Queenstown Research Week, 30 August - 2 September 2021 (alternative conference due to Covid).

To attend the Annual Congress of the European Hematology Association, Frankfurt, Germany 11 - 14 June 2020 (conference held in virtual format).

To attend the XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products in Galway, Ireland, 28 June - 2nd July 2021 (alternative conference due to Covid)

To attend the International ESC Preventive Cardiology 2020 Conference, Malaga, Spain, 1 - 10 April 2020 (plans to attend a rescheduled or alternative conference in 2021).

To participate in the virtual International Conference on Diet and Activity Methods (eICDAM 2021), 8 - 12 February 2021 (conference delayed from 2020 and held in virtual format).

To attend the 11th World Congress on the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), Melbourne, Australia, 20 – 23 October 2019.

To attend the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) 2019 meeting, Kyoto, Japan, 24 – 28 April 2019.

To attend (as invited speaker) The Great Wall Symposium 2019, Paris, France, 23-29 September 2019.

To attend the Microbiology Society Annual Conference, Belfast, UK, 7 – 12 April 2019.

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.

To attend the joint ASSCR-AGCTS-ISCT scientific meeting, Brisbane, Australia, 13 – 15 November 2019.

To attend the International p53/p63/p73 Isoforms Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 31 October – 8 November 2019.

To attend the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) annual meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 28 April – 2 May 2019.

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.

To attend the International Society of Suicide Prevention International 30th World Congress, Derry, Northern Ireland, 17 – 21 September 2019.

To attend (as a keynote speaker) the 16th International Congress of Radiation Research, Manchester, UK, 24 – 29 August 2019.

To attend the Society for Neuroscience annual conference, Chicago, USA, 16 – 23 October 2019.

To attend the Experimental Biology 2019 conference, Orlando, USA, 6 – 9 April, 2019.

Laboratory visits to Professor Henrik Zetterberg, Gottenburg, Sweden and Professor Charlotte Teunissen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 18 October – 5 November 2019.

To attend the Society for Clinical Data Management EMEA 2019 conference, Berlin, Germany, 23 – 25 October 2019.

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.

To attend the International Conference of Digital Health, Houston, USA, 24 – 25 April 2019.

To attend the Gordon Research Conference on ‘Enzymes, Coenzymes and Metabolic Pathways’, Waterview Valley, New Hampshire, USA, 20 – 26 July 2019.

To attend the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) 40th Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, USA, 8 – 11 May 2019.