The primary objective of the Brain Foundation Research Grants is to support individual researchers and research teams to conduct the highest quality research in clinical neuroscience.

The primary objective of the Brain Foundation Research Grants is to support individual researchers and research teams to conduct the highest quality research in clinical neuroscience.

A subsidiary objective is to provide opportunities as a chief investigator for early career researchers to gain funding for projects with potential.

In particular, the Foundation are reserving two individual research grants, one being for a Neurological trainee and one for a Neurosurgical trainee for projects for which they are the only investigators.

The Brain Foundation research grant categories are:

• Alzheimer's Disease, Dementias & other Cognitive Disturbances
• Brain Tumour incl. Acoustic Neuroma
• Cerebrovascular incl. Stroke, Aneurysms, AVM
• Concussion & Traumatic Brain Injury
• Epilepsy
• Infections, Meningitis and Encephalitis
• Migraine and Headache
• MND / ALS & other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
• Multiple Sclerosis & other Inflammatory Diseases
• Movement Disorders incl. Parkinson’s & related diseases, Dystonia, Huntington’s
• Paediatric Neurology
• Neuromuscular incl. Muscular Dystrophies, Myopathies & Neuropathies
• Other

This year, in addition to the usual categories, we have funds available specifically for (in alphabetical order):

• Acoustic Neuroma
• Aneurysm
• AVM (arteriovenous malformation)
• Concussion
• Migraine & Headache
• Trigeminal Neuralgia

The Grants are open to competition nationally and all researchers in Australia are eligible to apply, however consideration, subject to merit, is given to:

• Early career investigators, either clinicians or neuroscientists, to help them establish an ongoing research program; 
• Innovative projects;
• Pilot studies to enable a research project to be developed such that it could be supported by a recognised grant-giving agency in subsequent years; 
• Bridging support for a clinician who has a valid reason for being unable to make an application to a conventional grant-giving agency; and
• Supplementation of an existing grant from, for example, NHMRC, particularly for grant applications that were successful but funded inadequately to allow satisfactory progress to be made. In this instance applicants should submit the reports on their project from that grant-giving agency, together with ratings, details of the requesting and awarded budget, and full justification for the unfunded items. 
• Directors of the foundation and members of the SAC are not excluded from being co-investigators, but this is discouraged. Indeed it could count against the score for significance and innovation.

• Phone: 02 9437 5967
• Email: anniek@brainfoundation.org.au