More than $3million in Marsden Fund grants has been awarded to four members of the University of Otago Centre for Neuroendocrinology to research how the brain controls hormones. The grants were among $13.7million to be awarded to 23 Otago University research projects by the fund which supports investigator-initiated research. CNE member Prof Colin Brown, of the physiology department, was awarded $825,000 for research on the retention of water by pregnant women and preventing pre-eclampsia. The University of Auckland won $20.6million for 38 researchers and research projects. Otago research projects ranged from how an embryo’s genome is activated to the origins of New Zealand’s pre-European musical instruments.

Source: Otago Daily Times November 03, 2016 17:13 UTC