Cancer research grants made
Two cancer research projects in Christchurch will benefit from some of the $223,500 being granted to cancer research by the Cancer Society of New Zealand. The society has approved research grants for projects in Auckland, Dunedin, Christchurch, and Hamilton. The grants, which are additional to the society’s present commitments, have become available since national funding has been developed. One of the Christchurch grants is to the director of the society’s laboratory in Christchurch, Dr Peter Fitzgerald, who will receive $26,260 for equipment for use in his work on leukaemia.
A three-year grant to Dr Christine Winterbourn, of
the pathology department at the Christchurch Clinical School of Medicine, will be used by her to study the side-effects of the widely used anti-cancer drug, Adriamycin. It is hoped the grant will allow larger doses of the successful drug to be administered to patients without the present side-effects on the heart.
Other grants in Dunedin, Auckland, and Hamilton will be used to study tumour biology, cancer cell growth, and the linkage of some bracken ferns to the development of cancer in animals.
A grant of $30,000 a year for a three-year to four-year epidemiology study has also been announced. It has been made by the Medical Research Council.
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