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Former Manawatu College student, Johanna Paddison, has won a Fulbright award to pursue post-graduate study in America. The awards, valued at US$15,000 each, plus return travel to the US, are for promising graduate students who show academic excellence, leadership potential and the ability to be cultural ambassadors for New Zealand. Johanna, from Foxton, is going to Harvard Medical School to undertake research in psychoneuroimmunology, which is an emerging field of study at a junction of immunology, psychology and neurology. "I intend to investigate the fatigue that patients experience during chemotherapy. It is possible that changes that occur in the immune system during chemotherapy can influence brain activity and, as a result of this, people feel tired," says Johanna. "The pathways behind what I'll be investigating are similar to those that make us feel tired as we start to get an infection. Questions like this interest me because they are examples of interactions between the body and mind. "I hope to develop my understanding of ways mind-body related questions are being investigated at the Mind-Body Medical Institute in Boston." Johanna, who plans to establish a research career investigating mind-body relations, would like to return to New Zealand with a solid grounding in the research approaches being used in the field of psychoneuroimmunology, along with support networks to assist with research in the field. Johanna is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Molecular Medicine at the University of Auckland. In 2006 up to 20 awards, each valued at US$25,000 plus travel to the US, will be offered to New Zealand graduate students. Awards are granted for advanced academic study in the US. The closing date for applications is 1 October 2005. For further details visit www.fulbright.org.nz
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