Grants Directory

This grant opportunity aims to link researchers, institutions, policy makers and professional associations together to gather evidence on the physiological and mental health effects of bushfires and exposure to hazardous smoke over time.

Applications under Stream 1 of this grant opportunity must address evidence gaps related to the physiological effects of prolonged exposure to the 2019-20 bushfire events and hazardous bushfire smoke.

Applications under Stream 2 of this grant opportunity must address evidence gaps related to building mental health resilience following the 2019-20 bushfire events and exposure to hazardous bushfire smoke.

A funding pool of $5 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to prime teams working on ‘proof of concept’ stem cell research targeted towards a health care outcome. Funding for such priming programs will target two priority areas aimed at driving innovation and accelerating implementation into clinical practice:
1. Stem cell therapies
2. New treatments using human tissues made from stem cells

A funding pool of $6 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to develop innovative diagnostic and prognostic methods that facilitate longer term advances in traumatic brain injury treatment and to drive improvements in health and social outcomes for patients after traumatic brain injury and people around them.

A funding pool of $5 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to translate or implement innovative AI technologies into health applications that benefit multiple health disciplines/areas, involve consumers in the research journey to ensure the research is applicable to the needs of the Australian community, and increase AI workforce capacity and capability, particularly in relation to health, through cross-sector and interdisciplinary collaboration.

A funding pool of $7.5 million is available. Applications open on 11 February 2020.

Contact: Business.gov.au
Phone: 13 28 46
Web: http://business.gov.au/contact

This grant opportunity aims to support the development of better approaches to address the medical, functional and psychosocial impacts of brain cancer to improve quality of life and the survivorship experience.

Areas of focus may include:
- medical, functional and psychosocial impacts of brain cancer – for example: cognitive, executive and memory impairment; fatigue; behavioural issues; seizures or toxicities of anticonvulsants; and fitness to drive
- impact on survivors, their families and carers
- efficacy of new or existing models of care and interventions, including the factors that contribute to success

A funding pool of $5 million is available. Applications open on 11 February 2020.

Contact: Business.gov.au
Phone: 13 28 46
Web: http://business.gov.au/contact

The MRFF Frontier Health and Medical Research Program will provide grants to a total of $570 million over ten years to establish this landmark initiative. For the Stage One – Research Plan grant opportunity, up to $1 million in funding will be made available to 10 multi-disciplinary teams including research and industry partners to work on novel and transformative ideas that will produce practical benefits to Australians and also globally.

The teams will have 12 months to develop a detailed research plan to outline the activities, methods and partnerships required to transform the idea from concept to implementation in the health system.

A funding pool of $10 million is available. Applications open on 30 January 2020.

Contact: Business.gov.au
Phone: 13 28 46
Web: http://business.gov.au/contact

The 2019 Indigenous Health Research Grant Opportunity aims to support multidisciplinary teams of researchers to undertake collaborative, intervention-focussed research that is transformative, scalable and demonstrates the greatest impact on health outcomes and translation into policy and/or practice. Importantly, research should be led by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and conducted through close engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Applications must propose a research project that drives improvement in one of the four key health challenges:

- Ending avoidable deafness
- Improving outcomes from chronic kidney disease
- Improving adolescent mental health.
- Ending avoidable blindness

Grants of up to $2 million are available from a total funding pool of $13.5 million.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to reduce barriers to clinical uptake of pharmacogenomics testing for patients presenting with neuropsychiatric conditions, address gaps in evidence related to the application of pharmacogenomics for neuropsychiatric conditions, and encourage research that combines new or existing technologies with large-scale data, machine learning, clinical information, or patient biomarkers to develop new or refine existing tests that facilitate improved personalisation and efficacy of psychotropic medication regimens. A funding pool of $7 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to support innovative, high-quality, collaborative research that focuses on interventions to improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of AMR and DR-TB, promote effective translation of research into health policy and/or practice, and develop strategies that improve outcomes for individuals and communities in our region. It further seeks to build collaboration between Australia and Pacific Island Countries, transfer knowledge between Australia and Pacific Island Countries to build workforce capability, increase knowledge and understanding of AMR and DR-TB, and leverage collaborations between research teams, policy makers, healthcare funders and the health delivery sector (e.g. education, community, industry and/or healthcare).

A funding pool of $8 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to support multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches in three priority areas to drive significant improvements in cardiovascular health and stroke outcomes such as disability, mortality and morbidity. The three areas are:

- Improving prevention of heart disease and stroke
- Improved survival outcomes after an acute heart or stroke event through a focus on treatment
- Improving secondary prevention and survivorship after a cardiovascular event

A funding pool of $12 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to increase Australia’s evidence base in primary health care research for the following priority primary health care research topics:
- the provision of primary health care services in residential aged care and to older Australians in the community
- lessons from comprehensive primary health care service for Indigenous Australians for the broader primary health care system
- mental health service provision by general practice
- application of precision medicine and genomics in primary health care
- rural and regional access to services
- workforce issues, including scope of practice
- voluntary patient enrolment and blended payments

A funding pool of $5 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity supports research that addresses research questions developed by the Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, the Prostheses List Advisory Committee, the Advisory Committee on Medical Devices, the Advisory Committee on Medicines or the Medicare Benefits Review Taskforce.

The five health system research question topics for this grant opportunity are:
- Cancer treatment population
- Tools to value health change in paediatric populations
- Efficient use of high cost pharmaceuticals
- Digital breast tomosynthesis
- Circumcision revision

A funding pool of $26.1 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity will support research that focuses on one or more of the following priority areas:
- maternal health and the first 2000 days
- early childhood, and
- exercise and nutrition

A funding pool of $11.5 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to facilitate innovative, high quality research that will lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of ovarian cancer, and address the gaps in research, leading to a better understanding of the causes and underlying factors that contribute to the development and progression of ovarian cancer. A funding pool of $20 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to support innovative, high quality, collaborative research that focuses on interventions to prevent suicide; promote effective translation of research into health policy and/or practice; foster and build workforce capacity and workforce capability; and leverage collaborations between research teams, policy makers, healthcare funders and the health delivery sector (e.g. education, community, industry and/or healthcare). A funding pool of $8 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity aims to facilitate innovative, high quality research that will lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis, and address the gaps in research, leading to a better understanding of the causes and underlying factors that contribute to the development and progression of endometriosis. A funding pool of $9 million is available.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity makes $20 million available for clinical trials addressing an increasingly significant burden of neurological disorders including Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, spinal cord injuries and Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity makes $15 million available for clinical trials addressing reproductive cancers, including cancers located in the cervix, uterus, fallopian tubes, endometrium or ovaries in women, and cancer of the testicles in men.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity makes $5 million available for Childhood Brain Cancer clinical trials, with an aim to double the 10-year survival rate of childhood brain cancer, improve the quality of life of children living with brain cancer, and ultimately find a cure to defeat childhood brain cancer.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au

This grant opportunity makes $15 million for clinical trials where there exist significant gaps in current research and/or knowledge in rare cancers, rare diseases and areas of unmet medical need.

Contact: NHMRC Research Help Centre
Phone: 1800 500 983
Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au