Grant for asthma research
A grant of almost $24,000 has been made by the National Children’s Health Research Foundation to Dr Brent Taylor, a Christchurch pediatrician, for further research into the causes of childhood asthma. The grant to Dr Taylor, who is on the staff of the Christchurch Clinical School, is for two years. This, coupled with a grant for one year’s research which he has already received from the foundation, gives Dr Taylor $40,000 towards his research. Thirteen other new grants from the foundation have been made, amounting to $51,521. The foundation’s first pediatric research training fellowship has been awarded to Dr Diana Lennon, of the department of pediatrics at Auckland Hospital. She will investigate the incidence of scabies, a disease which is increasing among New Zealand children. Her study will cover the effects of crowding, the seasons, and the role of domestic animals in transmission of the disease.
Dr Lennon’s fellowship is the first of two, each worth $15,000
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Press, 17 February 1978, Page 16
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