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Recipients January 2016 Call

Catalyst: Seeding 

 Programme

Number of received proposals

Number of funded proposals

General

40

16

New Zealand – Germany Science & Technology Programme

13

5

Total

53

21

Catalyst: Seeding General

New Zealand PI

Institution

Project Title

Funding (GST Excl)

Months

Collaborator Countries

Associate Professor T Parry

Auckland University of Technology

Disaster E-Health: A Novel Approach to Improving Disaster Healthcare

80000

15

NZ, NORWAY, SWEDEN, USA

Dr D Reay

Auckland University of Technology

Designing Better Healthcare Experiences

80000

24

UNITED KINGDOM

Dr B Ingham

Callaghan Innovation

Resonant X-ray scattering of iron-fortified milk products

45000

24

NZ, USA

Dr KF Smith

Cawthron Institute

Cyst Risk: Assessment of Risk of Benthic Life Stages of Toxic Dinoflagellates to the Seafood Sectors of New Zealand and France

80000

24

FRANCE

Dr LA Tremblay

Cawthron Institute

Managing the risk of emerging organic contaminants in New Zealand through an international science partnership

52230

8

AUSTRALIA, FRANCE, GERMANY, USA

Dr CJ Hollis

GNS Science

SPacEx: South Pacific (virtual) Expedition to reconstruct early Cenozoic climate history

76108

24

USA

Dr AJ Godfrey

Massey University

The BrailleR Project

53000

24

GERMANY, IRELAND, USA

Mr C Fletcher

Plant and Food Research

Protective microorganisms: A collaboration between Plant & Food Research and IFREMER (France) to protect seafood and horticultural industry equipment from foodborne pathogens

72440

24

FRANCE

Dr MJ McKenzie

Plant and Food Research

The impact of selenium-containing glucosinolates on human immunity

79250

24

GERMANY

Dr B Nanayakkara

Scion

Understanding Pinus radiata cambium wood forming machine for gains in commercial forestry

23495

24

FRANCE

Dr J Sperry

The University of Auckland

Unlocking the potential of an ocean-based biorefinery

80000

24

SINGAPORE

Associate Professor PJ Delmas

The University of Auckland

Development of an automatic framework for integrating heterogeneous big data: a critical step for better understanding human and nature dynamic functions.

80000

24

JAPAN

Dr H Ho

The University of Auckland

Bridging the MedTech CoRE (NZ) and Computational Anatomy (Japan) through Abdominal Organ Modelling

75500

24

NZ, JAPAN

Dr ACK Yip

University of Canterbury

Decorating Artificial TiO2 leaves for Effective Carbon Dioxide Capture and Usage

80000

24

HONG KONG

Dr G Katare

University of Otago

Novel microRNA based therapy for regeneration of diabetic heart

73656

18

UNITED KINGDOM

Associate Professor C Warnock

University of Otago

International Research Forum for Environmental Adjudication

73419

24

USA

 

Catalyst: Seeding Bilateral sub-programme

New Zealand – Germany Science & Technology Programme

New Zealand PI

Institution

Project Title

Funding (GST Excl)

Months

Germany

Dr G Laible

AgResearch

Genome editing in pigs to support biomedical applications

11,500

24

Professor Heiner Niemann, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Institue of Farm Animal Genetics

Professor C Heuer

Massey University

Associations between genotypes of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and the severity of disease in cattle, sheep and red deer, both from New Zealand and Germany.

12,000

24

Dr Petra Moebius Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI)

Dr J Grigsby

SCION

Probing interfaces between plastic and natural fibre composites

12,000

24

Dr Jan Ludtke Thünen-Institute of Wood Research

Dr VS Shim

The University of Auckland

Can the lumbar fascia generate force? An interdisciplinary approach for treating lower back pain

12,000

24

Dr Jörg Böhme University of Leipzig

Dr G Grimshaw

Victoria University of Wellington

Controlled by Emotions? Understanding the interplay between emotions and higher cognitive function using electrophysiology

12,000

24

Dr S Ocklenburg Ruhr University Bochum