Funded Research - 2012
The Foundation Awarded $861k
in major projects for 2012
Project Details
"Potential biomarkers of 5-Fluorouracil cardiotoxicity"
Approved for Co-Funding by CMRF and the Ruth Spearing Cancer Research Trust $69,176
Reseacher 1: Dr Dean Haris
Researcher 2: Dr Chris Pemberton
Researcher 3: Professor Richard Troughton
To view report Photo: Dr Dean Harris
Oncology Dept, ChCh Hospital
"Serial MRI: Clinical tracking of cognition in Parkinson's disease"
Approved for Funding by CMRF $81,940
Reseacher 1: Dr Tracy Melzer
Researcher 2: Dr Michael MacAskill
Researcher 3: Dr Ross Keenan
Researcher 4: Dr Daniel Myall Photo: Dr Tracy Melzer
Researcher 5: Professor John NZ Brain Research Institute
Dalrymple-Alford
Researcher 6: Professor Tim Anderson
"The effects of ascorbate on hyroxylase activity in cancer cells"
Approved for Co-Funding by CMRF and the Bone Marrow Cancer Research Trust $99,085
Reseacher 1: Dr Caroline Kuiper
Researcher 2: Associate Professor Margreet Vissers
To view report Photo: Dr Caroline Kuiper
Pathology Dept, Uni Otago, Christchurch
"Optimally predicting risk of cognitive decline in Parkinson's disease"
Approved for Funding by CMRF $67,219
Reseacher 1: Dr Daniel Myall
Researcher 2: Dr Michael MacAskill
Researcher 3: Dr Tracy Melzer
Researcher 4: Leslie Livingston
Researcher 5: Professor John
Dalrymple-Alford Photo: Dr Daniel Myall Researcher 6: NZ Brain Research Institute Professor Tim Anderson
"New drugs for lung infections in Cystic Fibrosis"
Approved for Funding by CMRF $82,872
Reseacher 1: Dr Wanting Jiao
Researcher 2: Associate Professor Emily Parker
Researcher 3: Professor Tony Kettle
Photo: Dr Wanting Jiao (Bottom right) and Professor Emily Parker
"Deep brain stimulation of the Nucleus accumbens for the treatment of drug addiction"
Approved for Funding by CMRF $56,349
Reseacher 1: Dr Jungah Lee
Researcher 2: Dr Juan Canales
Photo: Dr Jungah Lee (left) and
Dr Juan Canales. Uni of Canterbury
"Effect of Glucocorticoid administration on brain fuction in PTSD"
Approved for Funding by CMRF $99,927
Reseacher 1: Dr Katie Douglas
Researcher 2: Professor Richard Porter
Researcher 3: Dr Caroline Bell
Researcher 3: Dr Tracy Melzer
Photo: Dr Katie Douglas
Dept Psychological Medicine,
Uni Otago, Christchurch
"Cytomegalovirus and Epsein-Barr virus in Breast Cancer"
Approved for Co-Funding by Neil & Pearl Hamilton Charitable Trust and WH Travis Trust $54,448
Reseacher 1: Dr Logan Walker
Researcher 2: Professor Ann Richardson
Researcher 3: Professor Bridget Robinson
Researcher 3: Dr Margaret Currie
Researcher 4: Dr Helen Morrin
Researcher 5: Dr Elisabeth Wells
Photo: Dr Logan Walker
Uni of Otago, Christchurch
Clinical Swallowing and Stroke full time researcher at the Swallowing Laboratory, New Zealand Brain 
Research Institute
Co-Funded CMRF and
R Stead $250,000
Researcher 1: Dr Maggie-Lee Huckabee
Researcher 2: Full time Postdoc Fellow - yet to be appointed Photo: Dr Maggie-Lee Huckabee
demonstrating a scanning machine which monitors swallowing
2012 Travel Grant
Mairin Taylor attended the 2nd Eunethydis International ADHD Conference, Barcelona, Spain May 2012
Balsam Obaid attended the NZ Society for the study of Diabetes
36th Annual Scientific Meeting in Auckland May 2012
Esther Vierck attended the 5th biennial Conference of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders, Instanbul, Turkey March 12