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About the
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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.

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The Foundation meets once a year to allocate research funding in the following areas:

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The Foundation
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• 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 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.

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The Foundation
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• 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.

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Trust board

as of 2025

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