Liggins Institute
Public funding
We hold a number of prestigious Government funded grants which support major research programmes in the Institute.
The Liggins Institute is the host partner for the National Research Centre for Growth and Development (NRCGD) one of New Zealand’s seven centres of research excellence. Many Liggins Institute staff and students are members of NRCGD and work on NRCGD funded projects.
Read about our research partnership with NRCGD
Visit the NRCGD website
Read about Centres of Research Excellence on the TEC website
Our investigators currently hold one HRC programme grant plus a number of project grants and research fellowships.
Programme grant
- Perinatal Care and its Long-Term Consequences
Associate Professor Francis Bloomfield
Project grants
- Assessment of pituitary function following traumatic brain injury in infancy
Professor Wayne Cutfield - Developmental programming of disease: critical windows for intervention
Dr Mark Vickers - Periconceptional regulation of fetal growth and adult physiology: twin studies Assoc Professor Frank Bloomfield
- Childhood outcomes after exposure to repeat doses of Antenatal Corticosteroids
Professor Jane Harding - Preterm brain injury and the role of intrauterine infection
Dr Mhoyra Fraser - Long-term consequences of intrauterine treatment of the growth restricted fetus
Assoc Professor Frank Bloomfield - Intergenerational macronutrient transitions and long-term consequences
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
International Investment Opportunities Fund (IIOF)
- Nature versus Nurture: nutrition and maternal care affecting health and disease risk
Principal investigator: Dr Deborah Sloboda, Liggins Institute
Lead international partner: Professor Michael Meaney McGill University, Montreal, Canada. - Developmental adaptation to an obesogenic environment
Principal investigator: Professor Peter Gluckman, Liggins Institute
Lead international partner: Professor Terrence E. Forrester
University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. - Have metabolic genes been altered in children of low birth weight?
Principal investigator: Professor Wayne Cutfield, Liggins Institute
Lead international partner: Assoc. Professor Yap Seng Chong, National University of Singapore.
The foundation provides funding for research that has the potential to translate into outputs that will benefit industry and the economy.
We hold a number of FoRST grants for innovative projects including our novel drug discovery programme.
- Endogenous responses and novel human therapies
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman - Endogenous Responses IO1
Dr Steve Hodgkinson - Endogenous Responses IO2
Dr Steve Hodgkinson - Nutritional Epigenomics
Dr Allan Sheppard - Improving Cow Fertility
Prof Murray Mitchell - Epigenomic-based prognostics
Peter Lobie - Accelerated development of nutritional supplements
Dr Mark Vickers
Visit the Foundation for Research Science and Technology website
Current major grants administered by RSNZ
Marsden Fund
Fetal fortune telling during development - modelling life history strategy
Professor Sir Peter Gluckman
