2023 application round is open 31 May - 31 July press release: https://anzmes.org.nz/grant-and-scholarship-programme/ programme description: https://anzmes.org.nz/research-funding-programme/
"This year two Grants valued up to $25,000 are available, and four $5,000 Scholarships." So that makes $70,000 per year? Not bad for a New Zealand which has around 5 million inhabitants.
Not privvy to the details but pretty sure this is the result of ANZMES receiving a very significant bequest from a pwME who expressed the wish that the money be used for research. So a bittersweet announcement (if my guess is correct I knew the pwME)
I wonder whether the bequest had the requirement that the research has to take place in New Zealand. In such a relatively small country, there might be few applications some years and poor research could end up getting funded. Edited to add: That’s good.
Thanks very much to this individual for remembering the ME/CFS cause in their will (I vaguely recall talk that someone had left a very significant bequest, worth in the region of maybe NZ$900,000 (??)). I get the impression not that many people with ME/CFS leave much if anything to ME/CFS in their wills. People with ME/CFS may be relatively cash strapped when alive but could still leave behind a substantial estate e.g. their property and its belongings.
