Recipients April 2021
Catalyst: Seeding
Funding round overview
| Programme | Number of received proposals | Number of funded proposals |
| General | 24 | 10 |
Catalyst: Seeding General
| New Zealand PI | Institution | Project Title | Funding (GST Excl) | Months | Collaboration Partners | Collaborator Institutions | Countries |
| Dr Tim Harwood |
Cawthron Institute | Developing capability to identify and monitor marine toxins produced by Ostreopsis species in microalgal cultures and seafood | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Andrew Turner, Professor Carmela Dell'Aversano | Centre for Environment Fisheries & Aquaculture Science, University of Napoli Federico II | UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY |
| Dr Adriana Najar-Rodriguez | The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research | Will climate change disrupt biocontrol systems? -potential effects of heat waves on tritrophic systems | 80,000 | 24 | Dr Feng Zhang, Professor Dr Mike Furlong, Dr Adriana Najar-Rodriguez, Professor Dr Chun-Sen Ma | CAB International (MARA-CABI joint lab), The University of Queensland, The New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited, the Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (IPPCAAS) | CHINA, AUSTRALIA, CHINA |
| Dr Jaroslav Klapste | Scion Research | Treelectronics: Development of scalable tree wearables for monitoring tree physiological responses to spatial and temporal changes in environmental conditions | 73,500 | 24 | Professor George Malliaras | University of Cambridge | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Ying (Sherry) Xu | The University of Auckland | Sustainable and recyclable battery technology | 78,600 | 24 | Dr John Kennedy, Associate Professor Neeraj Sharma | GNS Science, University of New South Wales | NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Frauke Meyer | The University of Auckland | Growing an International Research Collaboration to Combat Systemic Bias in Aotearoa New Zealand Schools | 50,022 | 24 | Professor Heather McClure | University of Oregon | USA |
| Associate Professor Justin Fernandez | The University of Auckland | Hyper-Band MRI: Faster MRI Scans for Brain Injury and Cognitive Disorders in NZ | 58,500 |
24 | Dr Samantha Holdsworth, Associate Professor Jerome Maller | Matai Medical Research Institute, General Electric Healthcare | AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Laura Revell | University of Canterbury | Development of a standardized analytical method for measuring airborne microplastics | 67,000 |
24 | Dr Steve Allen, Dr Dusan Materic, Dr Deonie Allen | University of Birmingham, Utrecht University, University of Strathclyde | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Dr Kirsty Danielson | University of Otago | From individual cell transcripts to disease: in-depth analysis for Māori health | 80,000 |
24 | Dr Bridget Simonson | Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard | USA |
| Dr Sarah Thomasson | Victoria University of Wellington | Building Global Relationships for Live Performing Arts Databases | 80,000 | 24 | Professor Julie Holledge | Flinders University | AUSTRALIA |
| Dr Nichola Tyler | Victoria University of Wellington | Developing socio-cultural evidence-based assessment and intervention protocols to reduce deliberate firesetting in New Zealand | 79900 |
24 | Professor Theresa Gannon | University of Kent | UNITED KINGDOM |