THE MAURICE & PHYLLIS PAYKEL TRUST
The mandate of the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust requires it to encourage the development of health-related research in New Zealand. It carries out this mandate by providing funds for research support under the four main headings listed below. Details of available funding rounds are given under each of these headings.
NEWS
The Trust Board met on 1 May 2012 and finalised a list of new grants-in-aid for applicants in the March/April funding round. The final total of new applications received by the Trust was 119 and the sum requested was $1.54M - as usual far beyond the resources available. The new sum approved for distribution in this round was $296,576, made up of twenty grants-in-aid for projects and/or equipment totalling $228,372, forty six travel grants totalling $54,704 and five conference support grants of $13,500. The trustees wish that they could contribute more, but hope that these new grants-in-aid will be of some help in advancing knowledge in a number of health fields.
Student scholarships for 2012, totalling $53,400, were also confirmed at the Board meeting. Successful students at the University of Auckland were Anna Kang (Phyllis Paykel Memorial Scholarship, Part 2), Swetha George, Herah Hansji, and Xiuyuan Zhang (Research Scholarships in Health Sciences). At the Auckland University of Technology, students Nadine Mesnage and Leona Dann were awarded Scholarships in Health Science, while at the University of Otago the successful students were Joseph Donnelly (Phyllis Paykel Memorial Scholarship, Part 2), Libby Dai, Deborah Lambie and Michael Chen-Xu (Research Awards in Medical Sciences). The Maurice Paykel Postdoctoral Research Fellowship was held last by Dr Sherry Ngo at the Liggins Institute in Auckland: this prestigious award has been in abeyance for several months but the Trust hopes that it will be resumed later in the year.