The Palmerston North Medical Research Foundation is a registered charitable organisation (Reg. No: CC36450) which makes available research funds to facilitate biomedical research in Palmerston North and its environs.

In addition to the General Grants which the Foundation allocates once each year, the Board of the Foundation is pleased to announce that it will now make two new forms of research support available:

The Wilson Grant ($20,000) which will be available annually, to fund research projects which relate to cardiovascular disease or cancer.

PNMRF Summer Scholarships for support of tertiary students during the summer vacation while they work within an appropriate biomedical research project.

The Foundation particularly encourages applications for:

• Medically related projects, especially those of special relevance to the local region.
• Research work which encourages co-operation between the local research institutions.
• Support of younger researchers.
• Seeding money to help establish new research programmes
  

THE PALMERSTON NORTH MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION

The Palmerston North region, with its Public Hospital, Massey University and Fitzherbert Science Centres, has a significant number of scientists engaged in biomedical research.

The Foundation has been set up to support biomedical research in the region, particularly at the large research institutions.

The Foundation promotes and facilitates:

• research that helps discover conditions conducive to health
• the causes of bodily and mental disorders
• preventative or therapeutic strategies
• the prevention or treatment or disease
  
  

It also facilitates the spread of biomedical scientific knowledge and research findings.

To maintain its level of support and to encourage new researchers, the Foundation is largely dependent upon legacies and bequests.