Investigator Grants provide the highest-performing researchers at all career stages with consolidated funding for their salary (if required) and a significant research support package.

Investigator Grants support:

• research across the four pillars of health and medical research:
  • biomedical
  • clinical
  • public health
  • health services research
• all career stages:
  • early career researchers
  • mid-career researchers
  • established researchers
• researchers with clinical responsibilities (such as clinicians, public health and allied health practitioners)
• full-time and part-time researchers.

Investigator Grants aim to:

• allow flexibility for investigators to pursue important new research directions as they arise and to form collaborations as needed
• foster innovative and creative research
• create opportunities for researchers at all career stages to establish their own research programs
• reduce application and peer review burden on researchers.

Investigator Grants may be funded by or in conjunction with other organisations. These grants offer opportunities to researchers whose work is particularly relevant to the priorities and research interests of the partner organisations.

Information on how organisations and individuals can support NHMRC to fund health and medical research is available on Working together to support health and medical research.

Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC approved Administering Institutions. A list of NHMRC approved Administering Institutions is available at: NHMRC’s Administering Institutions - NHMRC

• Phone: 1800 500 983
• Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au