The conditions being researched include dementia, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Huntington’s disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), premature babies’ brain bleeds, pain & cognition, and post-surgery delirium. Project Grant – Brain injury at birth$127,849Deferoxamine and IGF-1 for treating preterm intraventricular haemorrhageDr Simerdeep Dhillon, University of AucklandThis project focuses on brain injury caused by bleeding in the brains of premature babies. Simerdeep has also been awarded a Senior Research Fellowship. Senior Clinical Research Fellowship – Stroke$372,457Physiological and pharmacological neuroprotection in ischaemic strokeDr Douglas Campbell, Health NZ AucklandThis fellowship will develop and trial new ways to protect the brain early after stroke. In this project, brain cells will be grown from the skin cells of patients to test if this new drug can protect brain cells in Huntington’s.