In June 2018, the NSW Government announced a $150 million investment over 10 years into cardiovascular research. NSW’s Cardiovascular Research Capacity Program funds high quality cardiovascular research in NSW in order to drive scientific discoveries, support the development of novel and innovative therapies, and improve health outcomes for patients with cardiovascular disease.
Cardiovascular Senior and Early-Mid Career Researcher Grants 2025
Cardiovascular Elite Grants 2025
Elite Postdoctoral Researcher Grants and Research Leader Grants encourage highly talented cardiovascular researchers to move to NSW from interstate or overseas.
Since the introduction of these grants, 11 Cardiovascular Elite Grants have brought researchers to NSW from China, Japan, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other parts of Australia.
Nominations for Cardiovascular Elite Postdoctoral Researcher Grants are now open.
NSW Health invites eligible host organisations to nominate researchers for a Cardiovascular Elite Postdoctoral Researcher Grant. Up to $1 million is available in 2025-26 for one three-year grant with the possibility of additional funds becoming available. The funding will support elite researchers working and living interstate or overseas to relocate to NSW for the duration of the grant period. Eligible host organisations may submit up to one nomination.
Cardiovascular Elite Postdoctoral Researcher Grants aim to:
- promote NSW as a global leader in research by attracting talented researchers to conduct research in NSW.
- incentivise talented researchers to move to NSW to conduct pioneering and innovative research and drive discoveries with the long-term aim of improving health and wellbeing.
- build NSW capacity in a strong, vibrant and highly skilled research workforce
- bridge the gap between research, policy and practice to increase research impact and translation.
Eligible areas of research
Funding will support researchers working across the research spectrum including in basic science, biomedical, clinical medicine and health services research, data science, and population health research.
Round 4 recipients:
- Professor Julie McMullen
Project – Targeting mechanisms underlying exercise-induced protection to prevent and treat cardio-metabolic disease in males and females. - Dr Izzy Jayasinghe
Project – Visualising the unseen proteomic heterogeneity of the human heart
Cardiovascular Senior and Early-Mid Career Researcher Grants 2024
The 2024 round of Senior and Early-Mid Career Researcher Grants is now closed.
2023 recipients: Please see full list here.
Updated 3 days ago