Canterbury Medical Research Foundation

Canterbury Medical Research Foundation The Canterbury Medical Research Foundation has been funding medical research in Canterbury since 1960.

Our page aims to keep the community in touch with the research projects we are funding. On here we will post latest news, new grants and progress from researchers involved in important research in our region. We also hope to generate financial support from the community for our work.

A Christchurch psychiatrist will be launching a new mental health support research model for young people who have exper...
18/12/2023

A Christchurch psychiatrist will be launching a new mental health support research model for young people who have experienced trauma.

Dr Katherine Donovan and her team will offer a group support programme next year to teenagers who were impacted by the March 19 mosque attacks – thanks to a $109,985 grant from the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation which made this project possible.

“We were hearing that a lot of young people were really struggling, and that there was a stigma about coming forward if you were a survivor, or if you felt that you weren’t impacted as much as someone else.”

In February next year they plan to launch a research model that integrates well-evidenced well-being strategies with components of Islamic psychology.

Read more: https://bit.ly/47u9NEH

Could a popular psychological treatment for depression also help people with bipolar disorder?We’re supporting Associate...
05/12/2023

Could a popular psychological treatment for depression also help people with bipolar disorder?

We’re supporting Associate Professor Katie Douglas from the University of Otago, Christchurch with a $101,777 to grant to find out.

Called Behavioural Activation Therapy, the treatment is commonly used to help people experiencing depression, but new research overseas suggests it could be just as effective at treating bipolar disorder.

Twenty people with bipolar disorder will be recruited to take part in the two-year project.

They'll receive therapy over a period of six months, with assessments carried out before and after to determine the trial’s success.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3QNA1MO

Could Lac-Phe levels in the blood be related to ischemic heart disease? We’ve given University of Otago Research Fellow ...
21/11/2023

Could Lac-Phe levels in the blood be related to ischemic heart disease?

We’ve given University of Otago Research Fellow Dr Louise Paton, from the Department of Medicine’s Christchurch Heart Institute (CHI) a $109,843 grant to find out.

Dr Paton’s project involves measuring Lac-Phe, a lactic acid metabolite, across 1000 samples of people who have arrived at the Christchurch emergency department with chest pain. Recently Lac-Phe was found to reduce feeding and improve exercise capacity in mice, racehorses, and humans. Dr Paton will be the first person to study how this metabolite may contribute to heart disease.

“Our aim is to discover biomarkers that can be used for diagnosis and treatment. With something like chest pain in the emergency department, their ultimate goal is to identify people that need to stay in the hospital, and people that need to go home. Ideally, these biomarkers will determine that.”

Read more: https://bit.ly/465iV1A

Can tear drops hold the key to an early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease? We’re supporting Dr Vanessa Morris, a Senior L...
07/11/2023

Can tear drops hold the key to an early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease?

We’re supporting Dr Vanessa Morris, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury with a Major Project Grant of $110,000 to find out what more the eye can tell us about the debilitating neurodegenerative condition.

The project is the first study of its kind in the world.

More than 12,000 Kiwis currently live with Parkinson's disease. The condition is known to cause a wide range of symptoms, including shaking, stiffness, and difficulty with balance and coordination.

“What we understand about Parkinson’s disease is that changes are happening inside the brain for up to a decade before symptoms appear. That makes early intervention difficult because by the time someone is diagnosed, a lot of damage to nerve cells has already been done.

“We think that through analysing tear drops, we might be able to detect those changes early on, so we can say whether or not someone is likely to develop the disease.”

Read more: https://bit.ly/47edgab

Photo credit: University of Canterbury

01/11/2023

A HUGE congratulations to the winners from the Health Research Society of Canterbury Emerging Researcher Awards, another really successful event supported by Canterbury Medical Research Foundation !

Well done to Andy Kindon who took top prize, followed by Sam Gibbs, and Ashley Deane!!

Yesterday we were out-and-about at Lincoln Event Centre hosting the second of our 'Living Well and Ageing Well' free res...
01/11/2023

Yesterday we were out-and-about at Lincoln Event Centre hosting the second of our 'Living Well and Ageing Well' free research talks in partnership with Te Papa Hauora.

We had a great turn out of 80+ people to hear informative and interesting talks focused on movement, nutrition and the importance of connecting with your community. ⚡️

Thank you to those that came and remember to keep an eye out for similar events like this in the future! 🙌

🧠 | Living well & ageing well - REGISTRATIONS ALMOST CLOSED Canterbury Medical Research Foundation, together with Te Pap...
27/10/2023

🧠 | Living well & ageing well - REGISTRATIONS ALMOST CLOSED

Canterbury Medical Research Foundation, together with Te Papa Hauora, bring you ‘Living well & ageing well’, a series of free community research talks.

Our second event of this series is focused on movement, nutrition and the importance of connecting with your community. Come and join us to learn more about what you can do to maintain wellness and stay healthy from some of Canterbury’s leading researchers.

📅 Tuesday, 31st October 2023
⏰ 10:30am - 12 Noon
📍 Lincoln Event Centre

Registrations are essential: https://bit.ly/46lMvAK

Could a simple blood test could replace the need for colonoscopies in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)? We...
25/10/2023

Could a simple blood test could replace the need for colonoscopies in children with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)?

We’re supporting Dr Teagan Edwards, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, Christchurch with a $109,992 grant to find out.

More than 20,000 New Zealanders have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), with up to a quarter diagnosed as children or adolescents.

“Typically, when a child presents to their doctor with signs and symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease they’re put through a barrage of tests, including blood and faecal tests. But the ones that are currently available don’t always give clinicians a full understanding of what’s going on,” says Dr Edwards.

Colonoscopies are often used to paint a clearer picture, but Dr Edwards believes there could be a less-invasive solution.

“If we had a blood test that could accurately reflect disease severity in children with inflammatory bowel disease, we could reduce the number of colonoscopies they require and enable earlier diagnosis and more effective disease monitoring.

“This ultimately means these children can spend more time out of the hospital and enjoying their childhoods,” Dr Edwards says.

Can something as simple as a droplet of protein change the survival rate of people with acute myeloid leukaemia? Dr N. A...
12/10/2023

Can something as simple as a droplet of protein change the survival rate of people with acute myeloid leukaemia?

Dr N. Amy Yewdall, a biochemist and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Canterbury, is about to find out.

Dr Yewdall has been granted $110,000 from the Canterbury Medical Research Foundation to unravel protein and nucleic acid interactions to gain insight into disease progression, specifically in people with acute myeloid leukaemia, a type of cancer of the blood.

“When someone has acute myeloid leukaemia, it’s because proteins inside the cells have mutated, and that can disrupt cellular function and form cancer,” says Dr Yewdall.

Dr Yewdall wants to figure out how these mutations affect the way in which protein droplets are formed inside the body.

Read more: hhttps://bit.ly/3ZMtgxD

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