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Celebrating 50 years of hope 13 ► Dr Barry Snow becomes the Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Committee ► On the world stage, Nobel Prize awarded for neurological science research Dr Maurice Curtis and his team, funded by the Neurological Foundation, discover that the human brain can generate new brain cells, which changes the direction of neuroscience research First year the Neurological Foundation granted $1 million in research funding Dr Bronwen Connor and her team, funded by the Neurological Foundation, successfully transplant a viable number of adult stem cells, enabling brain cells destroyed by Huntington’s disease to be replaced Professor Alan Barber is appointed as the Chair of Clinical Neurology ► The Scientific Advisory Committee assists the Catwalk Trust with their grant applications for the first time. ► Professor John Reynolds of the University of Otago is awarded the Brain Research Young Investigator Award for his work on Parkinson’s disease funded by the Neurological Foundation ► The Neurological Foundation establishes the global public health initiative Brain Awareness Week in New Zealand Mitre 10 partners with the Neurological Foundation to support their Annual Appeal The first Neurological Foundation Repatriation Fellowship awarded to Dr Erin Cawston Inaugural Gillespie Scholarship given to Mandana Ghodratipour The Neurological Foundation Human Brain Bank celebrates its 25th anniversary Brain Awareness Month is established with a month-long celebration of research excellence The Neurological Foundation supports COVID-19 affected researchers and their projects at the sum of $1.23M The Neurological Foundation celebrates its 50th anniversary Funded researchers (Professor Gluckman & Mr Marks) make scientific breakthrough by discovering a drug which they believe will prevent brain damage in oxygen-starved babies The Neurological Foundation Human Brain Bank was established with Dr Richard Faull spearheading the project Dr Mike Dragunow, Dr Richard Faull and colleagues are the first in the world to show that the cell death in Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease does not occur randomly but by the process they call “programmed cell death” Dr Jon Simcock becomes the new Medical Adviser, succeeding Dr Phillip Wrightson Celebrating 25 years of funding research since 1972 First Philip Wrightson Postdoctoral Scholarship awarded to Professor Bronwen Connor The clot retrieval process was developed by the Chair of Clinical Neurology and a collaboration of international organisations His Excellency, The Rt Hon Sir Michael Hardie Boys, GNZM GCMG, Governor General of New Zealand becomes Patron of the Neurological Foundation and opens the new building at 66 Grafton Road 2001 2003 2004 2005 2006 2008 2011 2012 2013 2018 2019 2020 2021 Mitre 10 – Proudly supporting the Neurological Foundation since 1991. 30 YEARS ▲ ▲ 20 10 20 00