Research

Auckland City Hospital is New Zealand’s largest clinical research facility – a first-class setting for patient-focused research across the health spectrum.

By supporting the Research team, you help turn ideas into action, and action into progress. Our research projects have the power to enhance lives and even save lives. Or, by supporting our fellowships, you help the hospital’s rising stars who are leading our healthcare into the future.

Your donations empower successful, high-integrity studies, published in top health journals; influencing healthcare for the benefit of everyone.

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The team’s impact

In the last year alone, Auckland City Hospital’s Research team has:

229 new research projects underway, including 75 clinical trials
Built its portfolio to over 1,300 active studies
Grown to 104 full-time staff across 36 Auckland City Hospital teams
Collaborated with 97 organisations, locally and globally, including 68 collaborations with the University of Auckland
Ranked as the top research organisation in the New Zealand health sector by a wide margin
Published 759 research articles to inform peers and improve healthcare
Had 36 articles published in the world’s top 30 health journals
Been published in 313 journals to inspire healthcare professionals

This team is at the forefront of clinical research in New Zealand. Why?

Acute services are provided together under one roof so researchers can work with patients under the care of specialist teams.
They are world leaders in their field, evidenced by top-quality published research articles. They contribute to cancer drug developments and new genetic treatments; neuroscience, surgery and molecular medicine advancements; stroke and cardiovascular disease epidemiology; and understanding hearing disorders, diabetes and preterm labour.
The Research Review Committee provides assurance about the safety and appropriateness of all research conducted at Auckland City Hospital.

Donations help fast-track research findings from ‘bench to bedside’ and onwards into communities.

Supporting this incredible team has limitless potential. Thanks to generous donations, the hospital’s Endowment Fund has granted hundreds of clinical trials, some with the potential to change healthcare globally.

Our supporters’ impact

Over $7 million has been allocated to research; the hospital has an expert panel that selects the best research to fund.

Research has been funded to improve treatment strategies and outcomes for bowel cancer patients.

A donation of $50,000+ to fund a British Cardiovascular Intervention Society interventional cardiology fellowship.

Donations to Punaha Io – The New Zealand Neurogenetics Research Bank, totalling around $90,000.

A two-year surgical fellowship has been funded with the aim to improve women’s health outcomes.

Support New Zealand’s largest clinical research facility.

Our research projects have the capacity to transform healthcare, but as they typically sit outside the scope of government funding, these projects require external investment. The team relies on us to take research and discovery to the next level.

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FROM BENCH TO BEDSIDE

Rupert’s story

Auckland City Hospital’s Research team has made ground-breaking discoveries and developments, which are now successfully used to help patients in day-to-day practice.

The PREP2 algorithm predicts how well stroke patients will recover the use of their hand and arm.

This research helped predict Rupert’s recovery from a stroke when he was just 30 years old.

See Rupert’s remarkable recovery journey.