THE MAURICE & PHYLLIS PAYKEL TRUST
The mandate of the Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust is 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. Funding rounds are held annually and details are given under the relevant headings.
NEWS
Thirty-four new grants-in-aid, totalling $251,848, were confirmed at the November 2011 meeting of the Trust Board. These comprised 16 grants towards the costs of research equipment or projects ($222,728), 15 contributions to costs of research-related travel ($18,620) and 3 for the support of conferences in New Zealand ($10,500). A majority of the recipients were based in departments of the Universities of Auckland and Otago, as expected from the numbers of applications received from these institutions. However, the list this time also included grants to researchers in other universities (Canterbury, Victoria, Massey and AUT), hospital departments and one other institution (The Anaesthesia Institute). The trustees also approved a further period of support for a research training scholarship in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at AUT, on the basis of a report on site visit by members of the MPPT scientific committee in August 2011.