HRC Explorer Grants
Funds New Zealand health research ideas across biomedical, clinical, behavioural, social, and public health fields.
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) is the country's primary government funder of health research, established under the Health Research Council Act 1990 and funded via Vote Business, Science and Innovation. HRC Explorer Grants are the lowest-barrier entry point in the HRC Ideas Funding stream, designed to seed transformative, innovative, exploratory, or unconventional research ideas …
Transformative, innovative, exploratory or unconventional research ideas across all health-related fields.
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