To celebrate our Foundation's 50th anniversary, they are holding a milestone based $1m grant round.

A single grant of up to $1 million over a period of up to three years will be awarded to an Australian Publicly Funded Research Organisation (PFRO) (e.g. University, MRI) with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. This grant extends the single study applications into a planned project of key Milestone-based studies that would not require consecutive applications.

EOI are open for pre-clinical biomedical research projects across ALL diseases/conditions that may lead to a regulated product (e.g. medicine, vaccine, diagnostic or device).

The innovation must be pre-commercial with no IP encumbrances and wholly owned by Australian PFROs.

• The Foundation supports pre-clinical biomedical, lab-based research projects that will lead to regulated innovations such as drugs, devices, tools, therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics etc.
• Funding requests under portfolios 2 and 3 should predominantly be to support expenses relating to the external collaborator.
• The researcher who will be managing the project day-to-day and spending the largest proportion of their time on the project should be listed as the Chief Investigator, including mid-career researchers. The Foundation considers many other relevant factors apart from established track record when making funding decisions.
• Institutions must provide strong, demonstrable support for commercialisation and translation.
• Only one application will be considered from each principal researcher per year.
• Funding is to be provided only for research activities associated with this project.
• Grants are provided to Australian research institutions.
• Only one EOI or application or grant can be active at any time for a researcher.

• Phone: 0413 922 370
• Email: grants@nfmri.org.au