Results and review
Leveraging New Zealand’s Natural Resources (LNNR) 2009/10 Concept results

The Foundation is investing approximately $20.9 million per annum for this round through the Leveraging New Zealand’s Natural Resources (LNNR) investment process.

This investment round is comprised of funds from two portfolios: Innovative Foods (INF) and Technologies to Leverage New Zealand’s Strengths (NZS).

We received 87 concepts requesting approximately $67.2 million. This represented overbidding by 322% of funds available.
A total of 31 concepts, seeking $33.1 million per annum, were selected to progress to the proposal stage.

The following concept information was supplied by the applicants, who are responsible for its wording and accuracy. The Foundation is responsible for ensuring this information is consistent with the text supplied.

Leveraging New Zealand’s Natural Resources (LNNR) 2009/10 concepts accepted

View the organisation, funding, research leader and other details of the 31 concepts that were selected to progress to the proposal stage.

LNNR 2009/10 Concept Results (PDF)

Approved concepts, ordered by organisation

Organisation	Concept short title
AgResearch Limited	Embryo survival Food delivery of effective bioactives Livestock from pluripotent stem cells Meat Protein CombiFoods Milk-based food solutions for improved intestinal barrier function Muscle Foods Reversing evolution - making lambs immune to worms Ruminant Molecular Nutrition Capability Somatic stem cells in agriculture
Cawthron Institute	A novel marine bioassay platform
Fonterra Research	Anti-allergy ingredients from raw milkFood Structure Building Blocks
Industrial Research Limited	Enzymatic Sialylation
Lincoln University	Biofortification of trace element micronutrients Superior dried foods for export
Massey University	Novel meat foods
New Zealand Forest Research Institute Ltd Trading as Scion	High margin kiwifruit Lignin modification and the metascretome Water resistance in NZ plant fibres
New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited	Accelerating Development of Novel Kiwifruit Foods for gastrointestinal well-being Fruit foods for inappropriate inflammation Hops genetics and flavour Lifestyle Foods for Appetite Control Novel Sauvignon Blanc wines Polymer RFID sensing Substantiating benefits of plant foods TransNET
University of Auckland	Tekau Plus: Future Foods for Global Business Human Biomaker Discovery
University of Otago	Yeast Biofactories