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MRFF: Pharmacogenomics research funding to improve mental health care
FutureOpening Sun 1 Dec 2019The Morrison Government recently announced $7 million for ground-breaking research into the use of pharmacogenomics to improve mental health treatment outcomes and help reduce suicide.
This investment, through the Medical Research Futures Fund, will support research that aims to improve or develop new pharmacogenomic tests that will change how medications are prescribed for patients with mental health challenges.
The round will encourage research that combines new and existing technologies with large scale data, machine learning, clinical information or patient biomarkers, to result in better medication selection for individuals.
Guidelines will be released in the near future.
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BioMedTech (MBT) Horizons
OpenOpened Tue 15 Oct 2019
Closing Mon 16 Dec 2019Cutting edge researchers and entrepreneurs can receive up to $1 million to develop their breakthrough medical devices to improve patient care.
This round will direct funding to projects in three focus areas:
- Digitally enabled medical devices in mobile health, health information technology, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and digitally enabled personalised medicine.
- Implantable digitally enabled medical devices addressing unmet needs in any therapeutic area.
- General medical devices in the areas of regenerative medicine, women’s health, cardiovascular, orthopaedics, neuroscience, general surgery and oncology.
The funding will be available through a competitive process to support development of biomedical and medical technologies in the priority areas, to the proof of concept stage and towards to commercial development.
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MRFF Childhood Brain Cancer Clinical Trials
FutureOpening Fri 15 Nov 2019In a show of commitment to doubling the 10-year survival rate of childhood brain cancer and improving the quality of life of people living with brain cancer, our Government will provide $5 million from the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) for childhood brain cancer clinical trials.
Guidelines will be available closer to the opening date.
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MRFF – Clinical Trials for Reproductive Cancers
OpenOpened Mon 14 Oct 2019
Closing Fri 14 Feb 2020The next round of funding from the Rare Cancers, Rare Diseases and Unmet Need (RCRDUN) Clinical Trials Program will focus on reproductive cancers: cervical, ovarian, fallopian and testicular.
The funding will support projects of up to three years to drive new ideas and make new discoveries to improve quality of life and survival rates for Australians with these cancers.
More information, including the grant guidelines, will be available on GrantConnect.
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MRFF Investigator Grants
OpenOpened Wed 2 Oct 2019
Closing Wed 27 Nov 2019$32 million will be available from the MRFF for Investigator Grants for early to mid-career researchers who can demonstrate experience turning research into positive outcomes for patients. The funding will support innovative solutions to the nation’s most pressing health issues in the following MRFF priority research areas:
- Australian Brain Cancer Mission
- Million Minds Mission
- Genomics Health Futures Mission
- Ageing, Aged Care and Dementia Mission
- Indigenous Health Research Fund
- Stem Cell Therapies Mission
- Mission for Cardiovascular Health
- Traumatic Brain Injury Mission
- Preventative and Public Health Research
- Primary Health Care Research
- Global Health – Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance and Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
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MRFF Frontier’s Scheme (Round 2)
FutureOpening Late 2019We anticipate the Frontier’s Scheme opening by the end of 2019. The Frontier Health and Medical Research Program is a large-scale MRFF program to establish landmark programs to bring together multidisciplinary teams to explore bold and innovative ideas and unlock ground-breaking research which promises new treatments, services and technologies to improve health and open new markets for industry growth.
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MRFF International Clinical Trial Collaborations (ICTC) Program (Round 3)
OpenOpened Thu 1 Aug 2019
Closing Wed 4 Dec 2019The ICTC Grant Opportunity will provide support for Australian research teams to conduct clinical trial research in collaboration with international counterparts.
