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A-Z list of funding types

The NHMRC provides funding for all areas of research relevant to human health and medical research. This page provides a comprehensive list of the NHMRC's funding types.

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Program Name

Funding Type

Closing date

Australia Fellowship

The Australia Fellowship is for outstanding health and medical researchers across all disciplines and will consist of a one line budget of $800,000 per annum for five years. Applications are invited from leading researchers both in Australia and around the world.

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NHMRC Fellowship Awards

25 March 2010 EOI

30 July 2010 EOI International

9 July 2010 Full Application

Australian-European Union Health Research Grants
The NHMRC has a limited fund to assist Australian participation in projects selected for funding under the European Commission's Sixth Framework programme. In the call for proposals, the health and medical research areas of interest to the NHMRC are Genomics and biotechnology for health.
» See more on Australian-European Union Health Research Grants

NHMRC Strategic Awards

As notified on the website for Australian-European Union

Capacity Building Grants in Population Health and Health Services Research

These grants aim to develop research capacity across the full range of population health and health services research.

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NHMRC Strategic Awards

13 June 2008
(full applications)

Career Development Awards

Career Development Awards are available to researchers in the early stages of their careers. They aim to develop their capacity for original independent research; develop their research leadership skills; and help them to establish themselves as independent self-directed health and medical researchers in a research program or as part of a research team.

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NHMRC Career Development Awards

30 March 2010

Centre of Clinical Research Excellence

Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) Scheme The Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) Scheme replaces the Centres for Clinical Research Excellence Scheme and the Capacity Building Grants in Population Health and Health Services Research.

The CRE Scheme seeks applications from teams of researchers to pursue innovative, high quality collaborative research activities in the following priority areas:

  • Clinical Research
  • Research into Asbestos Related Diseases
  • Population Health Research
  • Electromagnetic Energy Research
  • Health Services Research

The CRE will build capacity, support research that will lead to improved community health outcomes, and ensure effective translation of research outcomes primarily into practice.

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence Scheme

1 October 2010

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research

This scheme aims to fund research that will generate evidence and increase knowledge in the area of Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

NHMRC Strategic Awards

14 March 2008

Development Grant

These grants support development work undertaken on products, processes, techniques or procedures arising from fundamental biomedical research which have commercial potential.

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NHMRC Development Grants

Closing 2 July 2010

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Enabling Grant

This scheme assists Australian researchers to continue high quality, world-class research by providing support for specific facilities and/or activities to enhance the national health and medical research effort.
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NHMRC Enabling Grants

Opening and closing dates will be advised on 29 February 2008

Equipment Grants

The NHMRC provides funding for Equipment Grants to support competitively funded medical research. The funding is allocated on a pro rata basis to Administering Institutions according to their share of the total funding awarded by the NHMRC for research in the applicable year.

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NHMRC Equipment Grants

No Application Required

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Independent MRI Infrastructure Grant

Funding provided annually for overhead infrastructure costs specifically for independent medical research institutes based on a proportion of competitive funding awarded to the institute.

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NHMRC Infrastructure Grants

No Application required

Independent Research Institutes Infrastructure Support Scheme

The IRIISS was established in response to recent reviews that have found overhead infrastructure costs for independent medical research institutes to be substantial. IRIISS commenced in January 2005.

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NHMRC IRISS Funding

No Application required

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New Investigator Project Grant

A project grant aimed at providing an avenue for less experienced researchers to access NHMRC Project Grant funding.

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NHMRC Project Grants

17 March 2010

NHMRC Research Fellowship

NHMRC Research Fellowships support full-time 5 year appointments for high calibre researchers who have made, and are continuing to make, highly significant contributions to their research field.

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NHMRC Fellowship Awards

12 February 2010

Practitioner Fellowship

This is a part-time award intended to assist experienced and productive clinical and public health researchers who wish to maintain both a research and professional career.

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NHMRC Fellowship Awards

12 February 2010

Program Grant -Teams

The aim of this scheme is to provide support for teams of high caliber researchers to pursue broadly based collaborative research activities. Teams will be expected to contribute to new knowledge at a leading international level in important areas of health and medical research.

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NHMRC Program Grants

15 February 2008

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Scholarships

The Scholarships scheme is to support outstanding Australian health and medical graduates early in their career so that they can be trained to conduct research that is internationally competitive and develop a capacity for original independent research. This is usually achieved by funding scholars to attain a PhD by full-time research.

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Scholarships

30 July 2010

Short-Term Exchange / Study Scheme

This is a funding initiative for the Promotion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research. It is available as a post-award scheme for Indigenous CDA, Training Fellowship and Postgraduate Scholarship holders.

» See more on the Short-Term Exchange / Study Scheme

NHMRC Strategic Awards

 

Standard Project Grant

Investigator initiated research project of between one and five years duration.

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NHMRC Project Grants

17 March 2010

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Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships

NHMRC Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships provide opportunities for Australian researchers to undertake research that is both of major importance in its field and of benefit to Australian health. These Fellowships provide a vehicle for training in basic research either in Australia or overseas (where appropriate), to enable Fellows to work on research projects with nominated advisers.

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NHMRC Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships

30 April 2010

Travelling Awards for Research Training

This Award enables current holders of NHMRC Australian-based Fellowships, Scholarships and Career Development Awards to value add to their research by providing funding for limited training periods at a temporary host institution.

» See more on Travelling Awards

Travelling Award for Research Training

Round 1
22 February 2008

Round 2
4 July 2008

Translating Research Into Practice (TRIP) Fellowships

The NHMRC TRIP Fellowship awards provide support and training for future leaders in translating important research findings into clinical practice. The award supports protected- time for clinicians in researching approaches to applying evidence to improve care, and develop the range of skills needed for leadership in research translation.

» See more on TRIP Fellowships

NHMRC Fellowship Awards

1 March 2010

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