Funding for researchers to support projects using existing data infrastructure types to create or apply new approaches for an unmet medical need.

This grant opportunity is part of the Medical Research Future Fund and the Research Data Infrastructure Initiative. It looks to fund the creation or extension of national research data infrastructure to support world-class health and medical research in Australia.

The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support Australian medical research and medical innovation projects that use novel methods to harness multiple existing data infrastructure types in developing and implementing new approaches for addressing an unmet medical need.

Research proposals should incorporate:

• new linkage and/or use of data from multiple (at least two) existing research data infrastructure sources of different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data, registry and biobank data, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and/or
• novel methodologies and approaches that leverage and enhance existing linked research data infrastructure of at least two different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data, registry and biobank data, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and
• a clear outline of how the proposed project will produce knowledge and outcomes that address an area of unmet medical need.

Grants of up to $2.5 million are available to cover up to 100% of eligible project costs for eligible organisations seeking to develop better data health intelligence to improve health care delivery.

You can apply if you:

• have an Australian business number (ABN)
• are incorporated in Australia

You must also be one of the following entities:

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

You can’t apply if you are:

• an individual
• a partnership
• an unincorporated association
• a trust (however, an incorporated trustee may apply on behalf of a trust)
• a non-corporate Commonwealth entity
• any organisation not listed in the eligible entity list
• an organisation, or your project partner is an organisation, included on the National Redress Scheme’s list of Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme
• an employer of 100 or more employees that has not complied with the Workplace Gender Equality Act (2012)

• Phone: 13 28 46
• Email: RDI@industry.gov.au