Thursday, 15 April 2021, 4:06 pm
HAMILTON, NZ, 15 April 2021 –
KiwiNet has appointed deep-tech champion Vignesh Kumar to
its board of directors as an additional independent board
member. KiwiNet has also appointed Zoe Murphy as a board
observer, a newly implemented role designed to foster
capability and diversity within New Zealand’s research
commercialisation governance and leadership.
The Kiwi
Innovation Network (KiwiNet) is
a group of 18 universities, Crown Research Institutes, an
Independent Research Organisation and a Crown Entity working
together to transform scientific discoveries into new
products and services. Together, KiwiNet members represent a
total combined research expenditure of over $800 million and
80% of the publicly funded researchers in New
New Zealand and Chinese Scientists to Share $1 Million in Grants to Study CCP Virus Together
Scientists from New Zealand (NZ) and China will share in a $1 million pool of funding aimed at partnering researchers from each country to collaborate on projects aimed at advancing knowledge and technologies to prevent, diagnose, and manage COVID-19.
The New Zealand Health Research Council (HRC) announced the 2020 NZ and China COVID-19 Collaboration Fund (NSFC) (pdf) in September last year. It offers scientists grants of up to $350,000 from a $1 million dollar funding pool, for the chance to work on two-year projects with Chinese scientists.
“The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have established this funding initiative to address the global threat of COVID-19 and to support the development of collaborative research relationships between the two countries,” the HRC said.
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