Medical Research Future Fund: Frontier Health and Medical Research Program Stage One - APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

The Frontier Health and Medical Research program creates opportunities for researcher collaborations to explore bold and innovative ideas in the health and medical research sector and/or make discoveries of great potential and global impact.

Stage One supports the development of a detailed research and implementation plan that will form the basis of a Stage Two application. The research plan will cover up to five years of activity to take your idea from concept to outcome. You must demonstrate how your idea is novel and transformative, and how you will bring together multi-disciplinary research and industry partners to transform your idea into practical benefit for Australia.

Additional info can be found here, see ‘Key Documents’ section for the Grant Guidelines, Factsheet, Sample Application form, and Sample Grant Agreement.     

Funding Available

The Stage One grant opportunity will fund up to ten projects. For this Stage One grant opportunity, up to $10 million is available. The minimum grant amount is $250,000. The maximum grant amount is $1 million. The grant amount will be up to 100 per cent of eligible project costs. The maximum grant period is one year of execution of grant agreement.

Eligibility Requirements

To be an eligible organisation you must have an Australian Business Number (ABN) and be incorporated in Australia and, you must be one of the following eligible bodies:

• a medical research institute
•  a university
•  a corporate Commonwealth entity
•   a corporation (including businesses and not for profits).

Joint applications are encouraged, provided you have a lead applicant who is the main driver of the project and is eligible to apply.

Application Process

To apply you must complete the online application form on business.gov.au and attach all required supporting attachments. The application form can be accessed here.

Interested researchers thinking of applying must contact Karen McConalogue at mrff@monash.edu

Please note that the Faculty must provide the draft letter of support approved by the ADR to MRO for Halina to sign.

Applicants must create a Pure record, upload the application form, draft letter of support and the relevant supporting documents and forward it to Pre-Approval by 18 Feb, as internal approvals must be secured before submission.

Key Dates

Scheme Opens:	6 December 2018
Draft applications due via Pure for MRO review:	18 February 2019
Full application due to funder:	26 February 2019 5.00pm AEDT

Pure Record Instructions

Applicants must create an Application Record (Grant>Proposal) in Pure: 

Select Funding Organisation: Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (Comm)

Select Funding Opportunity: MRFF - Frontier Health and Medical Research Program

 Please attach a draft PDF application form generated from the business.gov.au application portal to the Pure record and submit it to Pre-approval by 18 Feb. 

Please attach a draft application form to the Pure record and submit it to Pre-approval. 

For any further questions, please email the MRO <mro-applications@monash.edu>.