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Pfizer 2022/2023 Global Cachexia ASPIRE

The intent of this Request for Proposals is to support cachexia research projects in the following categories:

• Evidence generation in Understanding Cachexia/Unintentional Weight Loss in Cancer or Heart Failure
• Role of GDF-15/GFRAL Pathway in Disease
• GDF-15/GFRAL Biology
• Natural History (longitudinal) studies specifically related to cachexia/weight loss and/or heart failure

PIs must have a medical or postdoctoral degree (MD, PhD, or equivalent), an advanced nursing degree (BSN with a MS/PhD), or a degree in Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, or Social Work.

Both early career and experienced investigators are encouraged to apply and consideration will be given to all proposals meeting the selection criteria.

For more information, click here.

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) Pilot Grant

Grants awarded through this RFA are intended to provide early support for exploratory ideas, particularly those with novel hypotheses for autism. Appropriate projects for this mechanism include those considered higher risk with less assurance of ultimate impact, but with the potential for transformative results.

Investigators new to the field of autism are encouraged to apply for these awards. The total budget of a Pilot Award is US$300,000 or less, including 20% indirect costs, over a period of up to two years.

For more information, click here. 

Ian Potter Foundation

The Ian Potter Foundation supports the provision of equipment and capital infrastructure to outstanding medical research groups. 

Applicants must speak with the IPF Program Manager prior to submission to ensure eligibility. In general, the recommended minimum grant amount for institutions and organisations is $100,000 in this program area.

For more information, click here.

Sir Edward Dunlop Medical Research Foundation Grants

Grants up to the amount of $20,000 in all areas of basic and applied medical research will be considered. Preference will be given to projects relevant to one or more Statements of Principles of the Repatriation Medical Authority (RMA). RMA website. The Foundation has a focus on illnesses of veterans and their families.

Successful applicants must be prepared to present their findings at the Foundation’s annual symposium.

• Preference will be given to high quality applicants in the early stages of their career. NHMRC grants will be given priority.
• Grants from scientists based in Victorian institutions will be considered.

For more information, click here

Friday 6 February 2023

Rosemary Bryant Foundation Research Grants

In the interest of ensuring that all Australians receive the best possible nursing and midwifery care, the Rosemary Bryant Foundation funds high quality, translatable research that can be readily adopted and embedded into practice. 

A key focus of any project funded by the Rosemary Bryant Foundation is that there is a leadership role for a nurse/midwife and there is demonstrable collaboration with nurses/midwives in relevant practice environments. 

The $100,000 in grants are available across three (3) categories of grants:

• Discovery Grant – Up to $50,000 funding available per grant.
• Accelerator Grant – Up to $25,000 funding available per grant.
• Seeding Grant – Up to $10,000 funding available per grant.

For more information, click here.

TBC for 2023

Australian Rotary Health General Health PhD Scholarship Opportunities

Australian Rotary Health will provide stipend and incidental support for a postgraduate student who is undertaking full time research at a Victorian institute or university in the areas of:

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder relating to the Emergency Services Sector
• Brain cancer
• Bowel cancer
• Rural men's mental health

For more information, click here.

Friday 10 February 2023 (round 1)

Friday 16 June 2023 (round 2)

Friday 13 October 2023 (round 3)

Novartis Grants Program

Novartis provides funding opportunities for the general purposes of supporting healthcare initiatives from scientific and charitable organisations that directly support patients, improve healthcare and enable ongoing education that are aligned to our therapeutic areas:

• Cardio Metabolic
• Ophthalmology
• Respiratory
• Neuroscience
• Immunology and Dermatology
• Oncology

Monthly Committee Meetings to review requests are held from February-November each year. Requests are assessed on the value to patients, healthcare, the advancement of medical and scientific knowledge and/or community impact.

For more information, click here.

L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Australia & New Zealand Fellowships

Each Fellow is awarded $25,000 for a one year project. This is intended to provide practical help for the winners to undertake research in their chosen fields and the winners may choose to spend their fellowship on buying scientific equipment, paying for child care costs, conference & travel costs or other items they may need to continue their research.

National Fellows must be within five years of their PhD (not including career breaks) for research and be employed part time or full time at an Australian or New Zealand academic or research institution. Eligible fields of research are life sciences (including medical sciences), physical sciences, computer science, engineering and mathematics. Psychology, science education and social sciences are not eligible for this Fellowship.

For more information, click here.

National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation Grants

The National Foundation for Medical Research and Innovation (NFMRI) seeks to support the translation of biomedical research projects that have strong potential in addressing unmet community needs.

Applications for innovations across all diseases and conditions are sought from Australian publicly funded research organisations. Applications must involve one of the below NFMRI portfolios:

• collaborative innovation & advancement
• innovative uptake & translation 

For more information, click here.

Alzheimer's Disease research project grant round: Thursday 23 March 2023

General grant round: TBC

PKD Australia Research Grants

These grants will support leading Australian research that aims to provide a deeper understanding of Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and/ or improves the outlook and quality of life for PKD patients to assist in our mission to find a cure for PKD and to help the community we support.

Grants are available for:

• Basic scientific research
• Clinical research
• Translational research
• Psychosocial and public health research

For more information, click here. 

VicHealth Impact Research Grants

In 2023, VicHealth Impact Research Grants round will fund research proposals that can build on an already initiated body of work and catalyse its potential to create greater health promotion impacts in the real world. For this round, the priority themes are:

• Healthy and sustainable food systems: Place-based systems interventions focusing on increasing equitable access to nutritious and affordable food from sustainable food systems
• Active communities and sport: Improvements in the built and social environment to promote physical activity in geographic areas or communities that experience greater systemic inequities
• Social connection and mental wellbeing: Community-centred, strength-based models to improve mental wellbeing of people and communities facing significant systemic inequities
• Climate, environment and health: Place-based research to support improved community health, wellbeing, and resilience in areas in Victoria that are more vulnerable to climate change impacts

The VicHealth Impact Research Grants will provide up to $230,000 in funding per project over a maximum of 2 years.

For more information, click here.

Wednesday 1 March 2022

Pancare Foundation Scholarships and Fellowships

Pancare Foundation is committed to supporting research that addresses important priorities of risk factors, diagnosis, therapeutics, and clinical care of oesophageal, stomach, liver biliary and pancreatic cancers. Applications are currently open for:

• The Smith-Barrett Fellowship. This 2-year $100,000 Award is open to clinical and research post doctorates to achieve high quality research into therapeutic targets, risk factors, early detection, clinical care, and clinical trials in bile duct cancer.  This project also offers an option to apply for a $100,000 top-up for a high performing project that has potential to take to the next level through additional funding.
• A 3-year PhD Scholarship Award to the value of $65,000 (plus administrating institution costs) dedicated to pancreatic cancer research in memorial to respected vascular surgeon and devoted family man Timothy McGahan whom died of pancreatic cancer in 2020.

For more information, click here. 

ANZCA Novice Investigator Grants

ANZCA are helping to secure the future of research in anaesthesia, pain, and perioperative medicine by supporting novice investigators on their journey to becoming established researchers.

The novice investigator(s) will be the chief investigator(s) of the grant application and will undertake most of the research personally, under the supervision of experienced colleagues. A novice is an investigator who:

• May have been awarded previous grant funding as a principle investigator provided no single grant has exceeded $10,000.
• Has not published more than five research papers in the five years prior to the year of application.
• Does not have an experienced investigator as a co-investigator on the proposed grant.

The maximum amount available for a novice investigator grant is $A20,000.

For more information, click here.

Monday 3 April 2023

RANZCR Research Grants

The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists (RANZCR) offers a variety of research awards and grants to support research projects and foster a culture of research at the College. Grants include:

• The Withers and Peters Grant provides AU$25,000 grant support to Radiation Oncology Fellows up to five years post-Fellowship and trainees post-Phase 2 exams to carry out significant research projects. 
• Other Research Awards: Indigenous Health Research Prize ($2000), Quality Improvement Project Award ($1500), Bourne & Langlands Manuscript Prize ($1500), Clinical Radiology ECR Publication Prize ($1500)
• RANZCR Research Grants provide financial support for Clinical Radiology and Radiation Oncology Fellows, Educational Affiliates and trainees. Applicants who are trainees must be supervised by a Fellow of the College. Grants are awarded for sums between AU$5,000 and AU$30,000. 

For more information, click here.

Research awards: TBC for 2023

Research grants:  TBC for 2023

Cancer Council Victoria Venture Grants

Cancer Council Victoria Venture Grants support innovative researchers with courageous ideas who would not be able to attract conventional funding.

Applications are welcome that relate to causes, prevention, diagnosis, supportive care or treatment of cancer. Grant applications are encouraged from non-laboratory based researchers as well as laboratory based researchers. Innovative ideas are invited from the full spectrum of Victorian cancer research activity including psychosocial, palliative care, allied health, epidemiology, health economics behavioural and clinical research.

Four grants are available. Each grant will run for 1- 2 years with a maximum of $250,000 available per year, per grant.

For more information, click here. 

TBC for 2023 

Al and Val Rosenstrauss Fellowship

Targeted at Early-Career Researchers (5-10 years post doctoral), the Al & Val Rosenstrauss Fellowship has a salary component of $120,000 per year and an additional research support package of $50,000 per year for a five-year term.

Research must aim to improve understanding or treatment of a disease/condition in one the following areas of medical research:

• Brain Sciences: Psychiatry or Neurology (excluding Dementias, Motor Neuron Disease,
• Psychological Interventions and COVID‐19)
• Endocrinology (excluding Diabetes)
• Geriatrics (excluding Dementias)
• Lung Disease (other than Cancer and COVID‐19)
• Rheumatology
• Vision Sciences
• Dermatology (excluding Skin Cancer)

Please note that public health‐related research and clinical trials are not eligible for funding.

For more information, click here.

Saturday 30 April 2022

Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant

The purpose of the Vanguard Grant is to provide funding to test the feasibility of innovative concepts in clinical, public health and/or health services (including clinical service delivery) or biomedical research which may lead to larger, more rigorous studies in the future. Both pilot studies and ‘stand-alone’ projects will be considered. These projects are expected to produce tangible outcomes with the potential to further advance preclinical research technology or improve cardiovascular health.

Applicants can apply for funding for up to two years, with up to $75,000 of funding per year with total budget no more than $150,000.  

For more information click here.

Western Alliance Mental Health Research Grant Round

With the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated mitigation strategies (including lockdowns) on the mental health of our communities, as well as the release of the findings and recommendations of the Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System last year, it is an opportune time to support translation focussed mental health research in western Victoria.

This grant round will see the total allocation of $50,000 (split across up to two projects) towards solving a key problem, based on mental health priorities from Western Alliance health sector member organisations and communities across rural and regional western Victoria.

For more information, click here.

HCF Research Foundation Health Services Research Grants

HCF are inviting applications addressing one of the specific research areas of interest from the following two themes:

Women's health

• Sexual and reproductive health;
• Preventative health / managing comorbidities; and
• Addressing variations in healthcare.

Mental health

• Prevention and early intervention;
• Emerging treatment and rehabilitation models; and
• Improving access and outcomes for regional and remote communities.

For more infomation, click here. 

Dr John Dixon Hughes OAM Medal 

The Medal will be awarded with a prize of $50,000. 

The Medal will be awarded to the researcher judged to be responsible for the best biomedical innovation and development paper published, patent taken out, or commercial-in-confidence report in the previous two calendar years. Innovations will include Australian research and discoveries into new medicines, vaccines, biologicals, devices, tools or diagnostics.

For more information, click here.

ACRF Annual Research Grants

Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) provides grants for scientific equipment and other technologies as well as the establishment of capital works and facilities and national enterprises in support of all aspects of cancer research.

ACRF is a ‘seed’ funding body and is therefore interested in applications for larger scale research projects with value over and above the amount sought directly from ACRF. ACRF expects applicants to leverage ACRF grants to secure any ‘gap’ funding and also to feature multi-disciplinary teams, collaborations and evidence of the translational impacts at a clinical level (with patients). ACRF promotes collaboration amongst researchers and clinicians and encourages novel and innovative cancer research projects

For more information, click here.

Friday 20 May 2022

Ramaciotti Awards

Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research Medal and $50,000 Grant

This is awarded to a person who has made an outstanding discovery (or discoveries) in clinical or experimental biomedical research that has had an important impact on biomedical science, clinical medicine, or the way in which healthcare is delivered. Candidates for the Medal are provided by nomination only from professionals within the medical and scientific research community.

Ramaciotti Health Investment Grants of up to $100,000

These Grants are awarded to individuals in universities, public hospitals, or institutes for a contribution towards the undertaking of health or medical research with a potential path to clinical application within five years.

A Health Investment Grant is intended to provide enabling research support for an autonomous early career investigator who is taking, or has recently taken, a substantive position. It is expected that up to ten grants will be awarded in 2022.

For more information, click here. 

The Avant Foundation Early Career Research Program

The Avant Foundation Early Career Research Program supports life-changing research to promote better patient outcomes and advance the careers of some of Australia’s promising medical researchers.

Avant offers funding for scholarships and grants for full-time, part-time and short-term research projects as well as microgrants and skills development courses.

For more information, click here.

Full time, part time and short term grants: Tuesday 2 August 2022

Microgrants and skills development: Monday 3 July 2022

National Breast Cancer Foundation Grants Scheme 

The Investigator Initiated Research Scheme is an amalgamation of the numerous grant schemes previously offered by the National Breast Cancer Foundation (i.e. pilot studies, innovator, infrastructure, accelerator and career fellowships). The NBCF Investigator Initiated Research Scheme will support the salary (if requested) and research costs (or portions thereof) of outstanding investigators with a vision to expand the scale and scope of breast cancer research in Australia.

For more information, click here.

Monday 30 May 2022

Traffic Accident Commission Value-based Healthcare Grant Program

This grant program assists TAC health service providers putting Value-based Healthcare (VBHC) into practice. Grants of up to $150,000 are available for innovative VBHC research projects.

VBHC is healthcare that involves patients more in their treatment options, helping them achieve the outcomes that matter most to them through efficient, cost-effective and high-quality care.

VBHC grant funding is for innovative research projects that:

• address an area of priority for people with transport accident injuries
• build capability in measuring outcomes, and
• embrace the principles of VBHC

For more information, click here.

One Mind Rising Star Awards

The One Mind Rising Star Awards identify and fund pivotal, innovative research on the causes of and cures for brain health conditions by supporting the most promising emerging leaders in the field of neuropsychiatry.

• The project period for the awards is 3 years.
• The total funding for each award is $300,000, of which $100,000 will be distributed annually.
• To qualify as an early career investigator, candidates should be within 10 years of their initial independent appointment as an assistant professor for academic institutions or equivalent for non-academic research institutions. Note that postdoctoral fellows are ineligible.

For more information click here.

Wednesday 1 June 2021

TBC for 2022

RGHI Fellowships

The Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute (RGHI) launched in 2020 with an endowment of $25 million to support its mission of enabling and accelerating a portfolio of hygiene science to improve public health through better outcomes and behaviours.

The RGHI postdoctoral fellowship programme embodies this mission and, through it, intends to support several 3-year postdoctoral fellowships (awarded in several annual rounds) in the field of hygiene. RGHI areas of interest include:

• The role of hygiene in the epidemiology and transmission of specific diseases. 
• Setting-specific hygiene-related interventions and their impact. 
• Determinants of hygiene behaviours and effective behaviour-change approaches in high burden countries. 
• Intersection between hygiene, disease burden and gender

For more information, click here.

Al Spilman Early Career Researcher Grant (ACEM)

The Al Spilman Early Career Researcher Grant from the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine (ACEM) provides funds to trainees and Fellows who have limited research experience, to assist them in developing and enhancing their research portfolio.

Al Spilman generously supports this Grant of $30,000 to further emergency medicine research.

For more information, click here.

Brain Foundation Research Grants Program

Brain Foundation Research Grants aim to support individual researchers and research teams to conduct the highest quality research in clinical neuroscience, and to provide opportunities as a chief investigator for early career researchers to gain funding for projects with potential.

We are reserving two individual research grants, one being for a Neurological trainee and one for a Neurosurgical trainee for projects for which they are the only investigators.

The Research Grants Program will support research in areas for which we have received funding, including (but not limited to):

• Acoustic Neuroma
• Huntington’s
• Migraine & Headache
• AVM (arteriovenous malformation)

For more information, click here. 

Diabetes Australia Research Program Grant Round

Diabetes Australia Research Program grants are available to non-profit organisations concerned with the promotion of health care, education and / or medical research in the area of diabetes.

Project applications will be considered across all types of diabetes and areas of interest including type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, diabetes in pregnancy, pre-diabetes and risk factors, behavioural research, self-management of diabetes, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and diabetes.

Diabetes Australia is pleased to offer the following grants:

• Two $150,000 Millennium Awards: one for type 1 diabetes and one for type 2 diabetes.
• An unspecified number of General Grants, up to $70,000 per grant
• One $150,000 Charles Campbell Coghlan OAM Emerging Researcher Award
  for an early to mid-career researcher

For more information, click here.

Heart Foundation CVD and Vaccination Grant

The Heart Foundation has a long history of supporting ground-breaking research and continues this tradition through new programs of strategic research into identified gaps within cardiovascular disease (CVD).

With emerging evidence suggesting a possible correlation between influenza vaccination and improved CVD outcomes, this Heart Foundation research grant opportunity (12 month duration, $100,000) focuses on enhancing influenza vaccination rates for people living with CVD or at high risk of developing CVD.

To be successful, the research project will generate strategies and/or interventions that are practical, scalable, and clinically impactful.

For more information, click here.

Cure Cancer Research Grant Program

For the past 55 years, Cure Cancer has been dedicated to funding novel cancer research projects, giving talented early-career cancer researchers the opportunity to pursue their innovative ideas.

We are reinforcing our commitment to funding the most innovative minds in cancer research by launching a new grant funding model, with up to $100,000 available.

For more information, click here.

Cancer Council Victoria Grants-in-Aid program

Our Grants-in-Aid support cancer research for up to $100,000 per year for two or three years.

Grants-in-Aid are awarded to research conducted in Victorian universities, hospitals and medical research institutes.

The work to be funded must relate to the causes, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of cancer.

This year, in addition to funding across all cancer types there will be funding available for one project with a focus on Mesothelioma, and one project with a focus on addressing a regional need related to cancer, and that is led by a regional institution.

For more information, click here.

EoIs: Friday 24 June 2022

Ian Potter Foundation Public Health Grant Program

The Ian Potter Foundation is seeking to support outstanding tertiary institutions, medical research institutes or suitably qualified public health organisations which conduct translational public health research.

In assessing this research, the Foundation is particularly interested in the applicant’s plan to involve and support outstanding individuals that will strengthen the public health research workforce, including in the areas of biostatistics, health economics and modelling.

The Foundation will consider grant applications for 3 to 5 years of funding support in the order of $80,000 to $120,000 per annum

For more information, click here.

RACP Research Establishment Fellowships

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Research Establishment Fellowships are available to Fellows and trainees who wish to establish themselves in a research career. A range of Fellowships of $50,000 - $90,000 are available for one or two years in a variety of health fields. 
To be eligible, Fellows and trainees must meet one of the two criteria:

• you're within 7 years of having completed a Masters, PhD or equivalent higher research degree
• you hold a research higher degree and be within 2 years of returning from working or studying overseas for a period of more than 12 months

Funding provided by most of the awards can be used for:

• stipend support
• other support such as laboratory set-up costs
• a short-term research assistant appointment

Collier Foundation

The purpose of the Collier Charitable Fund is to continue the legacies of Alice, Annette and Edith Collier. We strive to improve the lives of Victorians and other Australians by assisting those in need.

Public hospital funding areas of focus include:

• equipment and infrastructure;
• initiatives that improve patient care (including hospital-based research);
• regional hospitals that act as centres of excellence and specialised services within an area; and
• support for smaller community hospitals.

For more information, click here. 

Australia and New Zealand Batten Disease Research Grant Program

Each year, BDSRA Australia invests in promising local research through its Batten Disease Research Grant Program. The objective of the Program is to:

• Further our understanding of the disease mechanisms for all or any of the Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses (NCLs);
• Advance therapeutic strategies; or
• Improve current diagnosis, treatment, education and/or management practices or family support practices (including those that improve quality of life, palliative care or other).

BDSRA Australia typically awards up to AU$100,000 in total each year, across one or more projects.

For more information, click here.

Arthritis Australia National Research Program

The objectives of the Research Program of Arthritis Australia are:

• To support specific research projects into arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders, and
• To support and foster the career development of scientists and clinical investigators committed to research into arthritis and allied disorders

Arthritis Australia supports Fellowships, Scholarships, Project Grants (including Translational Research Grants) and Grants-in-Aid.

For more information, click here. 

Friday 8 July 2022

Healthy Bones Australia ANZBMS Clinical Grant Program

The ANZBMS Clinical Research Grant is designed to fund projects that generally fall outside the parameters of other sources of funding. It’s aim is to support research to help improve bone health and reduce related fractures which leads to improved quality of life and care for people living with osteoporosis.

The grant supports a range of areas – basic science, clinical studies, public health, allied health, epidemiology and education while fostering research with young investigators – and are seeking applications from scientists or clinical researchers who have received their research or clinical qualification within the last 5 years.

The program is not intended to support laboratory research studies.

For more information, click here.

RACP Research Entry Scholarships

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) Research Entry Scholarships provide one year stipend support of $30,000 to $45,000 to assist Fellows and trainees who are:

• at the start of their research careers
• enrolled or about to enrol in a Masters, PhD or equivalent research higher degree

When applying, ensure you allowed enough time for your supervisor to complete the supervisor statement section. 

For more information, click here.

Monday 18 July 2022

Victorian Cancer Agency Research Fellowships

The Victorian Cancer Agency Research Fellowship Scheme supports early career and mid-career researchers undertaking high-quality translational cancer research.

Early Career and Mid Career Fellowships will be offered in two streams:

• Biomedical
• Non-biomedical (incorporating nursing, allied health, clinical, health services research and prevention research)

For more information, click here.

Jack Brockhoff Early Career Medical Research Grants

The aim of the Jack Brockhoff Early Career Medical Research Grants Program is to strengthen research capability in Victoria to conduct world-class research in health and well-being by helping establish the careers of talented young scientists.

The Foundation seeks to help support early-career researchers to demonstrate their scientific originality and their capacity to complete, relatively independently, a discrete study for publication in scientific literature. 

Grants of up to $75,000 a year for one or two years are available. 

For more information, click here. 

Tuesday 26 July 2022

NFMRI Alzheimer's Disease Grant Round

The Rebecca Cooper Fellowship

The Rebecca Cooper Fellowship is targeted at Mid-Career researchers who have established a strong research program and are on track to become leaders in their chosen area of Medical Research.

The Fellowship provides a salary component of $220,000 per annum and a Research Support Package of $50,000 per annum for a period of five years.

You must have a research focus that has an outcome that will improve understanding of the biological basis of a relevant disease/condition or extend understanding of the biological mechanisms of action of drugs used to treat a relevant disease / condition in the areas of:

• Brain Sciences: Psychiatry or Neurology (excluding Dementias, Motor Neuron Disease, Psychology and Cognitive Interventions, and COVID-19)
• Endocrinology (excluding Diabetes and COVID-19)
• Geriatrics (excluding Dementias and COVID-19)
• Lung Disease (other than Cancer and COVID-19)
• Rheumatology (excluding impact of COVID-19)
• Vision Sciences (excluding impact of COVID-19) 
• Dermatology (excluding Skin Cancer and COVID 19)

Please note that treatment interventions that cannot be shown to have a biological basis, public healthrelated research and clinical trials are not eligible for funding.

For more information, click here.

Rapid Response Research Grants Program

The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre is calling for proposals for rapid response grants to progress applied research into the prevention of chronic disease. Grants will be awarded for up to $100,000 per grant. A total of $400,000 is available.

Through these grants, the Prevention Centre aims to support mid-career researchers affiliated with the Centre’s network. Research project proposals must build on or broaden the work of a prior or current Prevention Centre funded project, AND address at least one of the following priority areas:

• Equity in prevention, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing
• Demonstrating the value of prevention, including measuring, evaluating, and costing the co-benefits of prevention
• Prevention funding, governance, and health system reform
• Strengthening prevention systems, including policy, regulation and public health law, or working across sectors
• Implementation science for enhanced impact in prevention, including adaptation, scaling up or evaluating services as learning organisations
• Prevention for improved mental health and wellbeing or for maternity and child health (first 2000 days).

For more information, click here. 

Spencer Foundation Small Research Grants Program

The Small Research Grants Program supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, with budgets up to US$50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. We accept applications three times per year.

This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. Our goal for this program is to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in education.

For more information, click here.

Gilead Australia Fellowship: Grants Program

The aim of the Gilead Australia Fellowship: Grants Program is to support the development, exploration and implementation of best practice in enhancing patient outcomes in the specific disease areas of HIV, chronic viral hepatitis, haematological oncology, solid tumours (especially breast, lung and bladder), and invasive fungal infections.

Financial grants will be awarded to individuals, organisations or groups of healthcare providers within a locality whose proposals are focused on investigating solutions to improve care for people living with the above conditions.

The Grants Program is unable to provide funding for basic research projects or clinical studies focussed on specific therapeutic agents.

A maximum award for successful proposals will be $60,000 contingent on the project concluding in no more than 18 months.

For more information, click here.

ACEM Morson Taylor Research Grant

Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are intended to build research and innovation capability and excellence and create impact, in strategic priority research strengths at Deakin University.

The Fellowships support and develop early career researchers, aiming to enhance our capacity and capability in key research areas and build the next generation of high achieving and internationally competitive researchers.

The Fellowship provides 2 years of salary support and a once off research support grant of $15,000, to be used throughout the Fellowship.

For more information, click here.

Wednesday 31 August 2022

Dementia Australia Research Foundation Grants Program

The Dementia Australia Research Foundation offers funding to support talented new, early and mid-career researchers. On offer are up to:
• 12 capacity building Project Grants for new and early-career researchers of up to $75,000;
• 2 three-year Post-doctoral Fellowships, including salary and research expenses, for new and early-career researchers; and
• 2 two-year Mid-Career Research Fellowships, including salary and research expenses, for researchers who are establishing their career in dementia research.

For more information, click here.

Monday 15 August 2022

Victorian Nursing and Midwifery Trust Grants & Fellowships

Major Grant: provides funding to health services to undertake dedicated nursing and/or midwifery research and education. Up to $100,000. Applications close Friday 2 September.

PhD Completion Support Grant: supports a nurse or midwife currently undertaking a PhD in an area of nursing/midwife practice. Up to $40,000. Applications close Friday 7 October.

VNMT PhD Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship is designed to support a suitably qualified nurse or midwife to undertake a research degree i.e. PhD. Up to $120,000 over 3 years. Applications close Friday 7 October.

For more information, click here. 

Major grants: Fri 2 September 2022

PhD Grants & Scholarships: Friday 7 October 2022

Stroke Foundation Grants

Stroke Foundation Seed Grants

Four Seed Grants up to $80,000 in total per 18-month grant, for early and early-mid career researchers for projects addressing at least one research priority area:

• Developing health services and pathways to improve early identification of stroke with a specific focus on underserved communities (examples include marginalised groups, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and socially isolated people). One (1) Seed Grant is allocated to this priority area in this grant round.
• Translational and implementation research of evidence-based care pathways of stroke management. Projects must specifically assess how to improve adoption or implementation of evidence-based treatments/processes, that have been shown to be effective, within health or home settings.
• Long-term community support beyond 6 months post-stroke (e.g. interventions to improve continuity of care, community health services, primary care, social isolation).
•  Long-term psychosocial recovery beyond 6 months post-stroke (i.e. interventions for recovery of cognition, communication, and emotional and social wellbeing).

Tim Glendinning Memorial Young Adult Stroke Grant 

One grant of up to $75,000 available to researchers of any career stage for a 2-year project that addresses the needs of young adults who may feel isolated and marginalised after stroke.

Nancy & Vic Allen Stroke Prevention Memorial Grant

One grant of up to $100,000 available to researchers of any career stage for a 2-year project that addresses primary prevention of stroke including feasibility and implementation studies to manage stroke-specific risk factors (e.g. atrial fibrillation, high blood pressure). Management approaches may include evidence-based integrative healthcare, behavioural change and education strategies

For more information, click here. 

Wednesday 31 August 2022

Endometriosis Australia Research Grants

Endometriosis Australia is now accepting grant applications from eligible individuals and organisations within Australia for research projects on topics directly linked to endometriosis. Total funding available is $170,000.

Preferences will be given to projects that address the following topics:

• Medical, surgical and allied health aspects of endometriosis care
• Basic sciences associated with endometriosis
• Patient-centred, educational, or support tools

For more information, click here. 

Tuesday 31 August 2022

The Norman Beischer Research Fellowship and Innovation Grants

The Norman Beischer Medical Research Foundation supports and promotes improvements in the reproductive health of women and in the health of their babies and infants in the areas of obstetrics, gynaecology and neonatology. 

• The Norman Beischer Research Fellowship provides an opportunity for an outstanding clinician or scientific researcher to be recognised with an esteemed and competitive fellowship.  The Fellowship awards $600,000 over a three-year period for the recipient. The Fellowships are aimed at those who have completed a PhD and are early-to-mid-career researchers.
• Innovation Grants provide seed funding to support highly innovative research projects, which show potential toward a major benefit - or for major grant applications to NHMRC and other funders in the future. The applicant will define their objectives and test hypotheses in any area of obstetric, gynaecological or infant conditions. Innovation Grants are for 1-year research projects for amounts up to $65,000.

For more information, click here. 

Thursday 1 September 2022

Conquer Cystic Fibrosis Lung Health Transplant Grant 2022

Cystic Fibrosis Australia (CFA) is pleased to announce the Conquer Cystic Fibrosis (Conquer CF) Lung Health Transplant Grant.

This grant is looking for ‘big thinkers’ with great innovative ideas who will make a difference through research to the CF community. It is open to post-doctoral researchers, scientists, clinicians, medical practitioners, nurses and allied health currently working in the area of cystic fibrosis (CF) or proposing to work in CF research in the Lung Health Transplant field.

For more information, click here. 

Friday 2 September 2022

HCF Research Foundation Translational Research Grants

The HCF Research Foundation Translational Research Grants (TRG) scheme aims to facilitate the implementation of cost effective, evidence-based innovation into health care delivery to improve outcomes for patients and the work experience of clinical staff.

The 2022 TRG round is calling for applications specifically addressing the topic of "providing appropriate care for the elderly in the community".

This topic aims to facilitate implementation of care models for the elderly that are delivered in the community and includes (but is not limited to) health issues such as frailty, polypharmacy, palliative care, rehabilitation, end-of-life and advanced care planning, residential aged care and primary care engagement.

The TRG scheme has a two-stage application process. The first stage requires applicants to submit an expression of interest (EOI), with the second stage being a full application.

For more information and EOI form, click here. Expressions of interest need to be submitted by email to [email protected].

Wellcome Research Grant Funding

Wellcome have several grants and awards available to researchers at all stages of their career.

To read about all funding opportunities click here.

Mental Health Award: Integrating sleep and circadian science into our understanding and treatment of anxiety, depression and psychosis

This award will fund teams researching the interdependent roles of sleep and circadian rhythm disruptions in the development and resolution of anxiety, depression and/or psychosis.

Up to £3 million is available for up to 5 years. 

For more information about the 2022 Mental Health Award, click here.

LLS – Snowdome Foundation – Leukaemia Foundation Translational Research Program

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), Snowdome Foundation and Leukaemia Foundation will jointly fund up to two meritorious Translational Research Program applications focused on blood cancer research. This program is intended to provide support over an initial three-year period, for total funding up to $750,000.

Applications are sought that propose novel approaches to the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of hematological malignancies and related pre-malignant conditions. Proposals should be based on molecular, cellular, or integrated systems findings and be conceptually innovative. The application should have a clear plan for the eventual clinical translation of the studies proposed and the results expected.

For more information, click here.

Friday 28 October 2022

NBA National Blood Sector Research and Development Grants

The NBA National Blood Sector Research and Development Program is a small niche program, focused on research priorities relating to patient blood management (PBM) and the appropriate use of immunoglobulin (Ig). To support the development of best-practice models of management and use of blood and blood-related products and services, the NBA supports research to:

• enhance the sustainability and affordability of the national supply of blood products, including through increased efficiency and reduced blood product usage and wastage
• identify appropriate use and reduce inappropriate use of blood products
• maintain or enhance clinical outcomes for patients.

Applications for grant funding of up to three years will be received for project grants, seed grants or scholarship grants.

The NBA has commenced planning for Round 6 of the National Blood Sector Research and Development Program. While dates are yet to be confirmed, we are presently planning to open a round in the second half of 2022. To see round 5 recipients, click here.

For more information, click here.

Ramsey Healthcare Translational Challenge Grants

The Translational Challenge Grant stream seeks to fund translational research projects that will break the cycle of disadvantage and improve patient outcomes by addressing specific determinants of health – such as health literacy, social and lifestyle risk factors, knowledge transfer between generations or the effects of climate change on health. 

Projects should:

• have a particular focus on improving health outcomes for people of disadvantage
• be undertaken in one of the following clinical areas: cancer, mental health, cardiovascular health, orthopaedic surgery or musculoskeletal injury
• consider and include a diverse patient population
• aim to benefit patients in both private and public healthcare settings
• aim to be implemented at both Ramsay and non-Ramsay healthcare settings.

A maximum of $750,000 is available per project, for projects of duration up to 4 years.

Closed for 2022

Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control Research Grants

Early Career Research Grant: Supporting ECRs undertake research relevant to infection prevention and control. ECR Grants are valued at up to $12,000.

Seed Grant: Supporting members who wish to undertake high quality pilot, exploratory, or small-scale infection prevention and control research. This grant aims to address a gap between early concepts and large-scale funding provided by NHMRC, ARC etc. Seed Grants are valued at up to $15,000.

For more information, click here.

Foundation for High Blood Pressure Research

The Foundation for High Blood Pressure Research funds Early Career Research Transition Grants.

These new grants of up to $20,000 each are intended for early career researchers who need help in reestablishing their research as a result of change in physical location, direction of research or a major career interruption. Unless exceptional, disruptions due to the COVID pandemic will not be considered as sole justification for funding.

For more information, click here.

Tuesday 8 November 2022

World Cancer Research Fund International

Researchers in Australia are eligible for co-funding from World Cancer Research Fund International and Cancer Australia for:

• pilot and feasibility grants (up to £60,000 for up to two years)
• investigator initiated grants (for a maximum of £300,000 for up to three years

Grants are grouped into two themes – cancer prevention and cancer survivors. Each of these areas may be addressed either from the perspective of identifying the mechanisms that underpin the effect of diet, nutrition and physical activity on cancer, or by addressing the host factors that influence individual susceptibility to cancer development or progression, and so contribute to explaining variability between people in outcomes.

For cancer survivors, we also encourage broader research into evidence for impact of diet, nutrition (including body composition), physical activity and outcomes after cancer diagnosis.

For more information, click here.

Closed for 2022

Maddie’s Vision Grant Scheme

Maddie Riewoldt’s Vision HSANZ New Investigator PhD Scholarship is offered for 2023.

Maddie's Vision is delighted to partner with the Haematology Society of Australia and New Zealand (HSANZ) to award a doctoral scholarship to an Australian or New Zealand applicant demonstrating outstanding merit in both acquired and inherited Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes and related disorders.

For more information, click here. 

Monday 6 November 2022

Aged Care Research & Industry Innovation Australia (ARIIA) Grants

The ARIIA Grants program supports high-quality research studies and findings that address important gaps in aged care workforce capability and knowledge, and lead to relevant, translational research findings for the benefit of the sector.

ARIIA is seeking applications for its Grants Round 3 from organisations who have a project that will contribute to the betterment of the aged care sector through improved service delivery, adoption of technology and quality of care, and can address one of ARIIA’s aged care sector priorities:

• Dementia Care
• Rehabilitation, Reablement & Restorative Care
• Mental Health & Wellbeing
• Social Isolation
• Urgent & Critical Need: COVID-19
• Urgent & Critical Need: Infection Control

Applicants must articulate that the project has the potential in Growth and/or Translational Research outcomes.

Applicants must also provide a co-contribution of at least 20% (ex GST) that contributes towards eligible project expenditure. For projects that are greater than $200,000 (ex GST), ARIIA will fund a maximum of $160,000 (ex GST) each. The remainder of required funds must be co-contributed towards eligible project expenditure and cannot be from any other grant sources.

For more information, click here.

Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund

Applications are now open for Round 6 of the Victorian Medical Research Acceleration Fund.

Round 6 includes $5 million in funding through two streams.

• Foundation Stream: offers $3 million to medical research projects that can deliver benefits to Victoria. 
• The new Public Health and Health Inequalities Stream: $2 million to medical research projects addressing public health inequalities that affect vulnerable Victorians.

In both streams, projects led by women or research teams comprised of at least 50% women will be prioritised to help address underrepresentation of women in health and medical research.

VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The VicHealth Postdoctoral Research Fellowships aim to support early career researchers (up to 3 years post-PhD at time of application, minus valid career disruptions) to conduct high quality, rigorous research that will strengthen the evidence base for preventive health policies and programs and ultimately improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for the Victorian community.

They emphasise the translation of results from cutting edge academic investigation into policy and practice. The fellowships provide 3 years of funding support.

While applicants must apply under a particular focus area, you’re welcome to propose a reframing or different approach to the issue. The focus areas are:

• Children and young people’s health and wellbeing
• The economics of health promotion and disease prevention
• Creating resilient, inclusive, connected communities
• Climate change, health and local level adaption

For more information, click here.

Biocodex Microbiota Foundation International Research Grants

The grant is open to physicians, PhD's and Pharm-D's working in the subject area (gastroenterology, pediatrics, microbiology, infectious diseases and internal medicine, etc).

Proposals must focus on new metabolites and small molecules, or novel functions of previously described metabolites, from gut microbiota that have an impact on gut mucosal pathways relevant to human health and disease.

The annual grant is set at €200,000 VAT included, independently of the duration of the project (between 1 and 3 years).

For more information, click here.. 

Veski Inspiring Women Fellowships

The Veski Inspiring Women Fellowships provide an opportunity for female leaders to remain competitive in their field, enhance the current talent pool and affect cultural change.

Applicants are sought from early to mid-career female researchers and scientists who are experiencing difficulties balancing commitments or who may have compounding reasons for needing support.

The program offers each fellow up to $150,000 over three years. The fellowship can be used for activities including:

• funding a research assistant
• paying for childcare (up to $15,000 per annum)
• support for relevant IT purchases
• support for relevant-related travel to international/national conferences including family/carer expenses
• PhD scholarships and/or to fund a replacement of their teaching and administrative duties.

For more information, click here.

The Mason Foundation – ME/CFS research grants

The Mason Foundation ME/CFS research grants support research projects that focus on Myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome  (ME/CFS).

Grants will be awarded to a maximum of $100,000 per annum, for up to 3 years.

For more information, click here. 

Closed for 2022

Perpetual IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program (IPAP)

Perpetual is one of the largest managers of philanthropic funds in Australia. 

Universities, hospitals and medical research institutes may submit a maximum of three applications per organisation from different departments. Funding is usually for a single one-off grant and the amount varies from $10,000 to $100,000. Funding is provided for a wide range of projects at different developmental stages including (but not limited to) pilot and existing projects, capacity building and operational costs. Funding direct to individuals is not permitted.

The IPAP assessment process largely focuses on the organisation, as Perpetual believes well governed charitable organisations will deliver optimal outcomes for the community.

For more information, click here.

Friday 2 December 2022

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Future Leaders Scheme

PCFA recognises that funding pressures often impact junior researchers the most, with implications for long-term prostate cancer research horizons. Therefore, funding will be focused on supporting key and emerging talent via salaried awards to promote prostate cancer research pathways which harness the clinical and psychosocial needs and interests of consumers and the broader community.

The below funding is on offer, for a term of 1 year:

• 6 x $100,000 Concept Grant Awards for Early Career Researchers (Up to 5 years post PhD) and Mid-Career Researchers (5-10 years post PhD)

Awards are intended to cover the applicant’s salary and applications are welcome from Prostate Cancer Researchers in:

• Application of precision approaches to therapies across the prostate cancer continuum, including hormone sensitive prostate cancer
• Research (basic, translational, epidemiological) that capitalises on existing repositories of biological samples and clinical data from men with prostate cancer
• Better understanding the impact of prostate cancer on men’s lives and improving the quality of life of men diagnosed with prostate cancer, their partners, and their families
• Better understanding the basis of, and approaches to address disparities in, prostate cancer outcomes based on ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and location
• Bringing precision approaches to survivorship strategies (e.g., exercise, nutrition, mental and psychosocial supports)

For more information, click here.

Friday 16 December 2022