HRC Programme Grants
Funds large investigator-led research teams in New Zealand with sustained, coherent agendas across biomedical and public health priorities.
The Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Programme Grants is the organisation's flagship large-scale investigator-initiated mechanism, supporting high-performing research teams conducting sustained, coherent programmes of health research in areas of importance or priority for New Zealand. The HRC was established under the Health Research Council Act 1990, operates under a ten-member Counci…
Programme of health research in an area of importance or priority for New Zealand, in either the General category or the Rangahau Hauora Māori category.
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