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2013/2014 RESEARCH FUNDING CALENDAR

Download the Research Proposal Clearance Form Research Grants and Development Team contact details

JANUARY

Funds drug discovery and development research programs. (Full Proposal Deadline – Letters of Intent are due two weeks before Proposal Deadline)

Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)

ComFRAB research opportunities for fishery-specific research. (Expressions of Interest)

Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)

AINSE Honours Scholarships – eligible students will be enrolled in an Honours or Masters program, and their university supervisor will hold a 2013 Research Award.

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)

• Australian Laureate Fellowships – to support excellence in research by attracting world-class researchers and research leaders to key positions, and creating new rewards and incentives for the application of their talents in Australia. (UWS Internal Deadline) Australian Research Council (ARC)

• Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) – funding for research infrastructure, equipment and facilities. (UWS Internal Deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Australian Small Animal Veterinary Association - Australian Companion Animal Health Foundation (ACAHF)

Grants for research into the causes, prevention and cure of disease in animals and in particular in the canine, feline and other companion animal species, and relevant to small animal veterinary practice.

Travelling Fellowships – cardiology research. Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

Carbon Farming Futures – Filling the Research Gap Program – supports essential research into emerging greenhouse gas abatement technologies and strategies, as well as innovative management practices that improve carbon sequestration in the land sector and enhance sustainable agriculture practices.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF)

Aimed at strengthening research partnerships through staff exchanges and networking activities between European research organisations and organisations from third countries with which the Community has an S&T agreement.

European Commission – Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme

Preventing Preterm Birth Initiative – grants to discover new solutions to ensure healthy births around the world. (Letters of Inquiry)

Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS)

Investment Applications – invests in and directs research, development and extension that supports a competitive Australian wine sector. (Final Project Applications)

Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC)

Arts, Community Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing International Travel, Education, Health & Disability and Medical Research Grants. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Ian Potter Foundation

IASP Early Career Research Grants Program – support for researchers who are in the early career stage of pain investigations.

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Various opportunities – for research into type 1 diabetes. Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

Environmental Research Grants – for research projects Lake Macquarie City Council

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relevant to the Lake Macquarie City area.

Research into human origins. Leakey Foundation

• Research Fellowships and Practitioner Fellowships – supports health and medical research. (UWS Internal Deadline) National Health and Medical

Research Council (NHMRC) • Partnership Projects – supports health and medical

research. (UWS Internal Deadline) Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) Grants – for empirical, inter-/multi-disciplinary projects that are addressing a range of ecosystem services and associated benefits, and are linked to a multi-dimensional analysis of poverty and the ways that poor people can move out of poverty.

Natural Environment Research Council

Population Health and Health Services Research Support Program – support for population health and/or health services research that aligns with NSW Health priorities.

NSW Ministry of Health

Volvo Environmental Prize – awarded for “Outstanding innovations or scientific discoveries which in broad terms fall within the environmental field”.

Volvo Environmental Prize Foundation

Investigator-Initiated Research Grants – funds high-quality research to understand and improve the everyday settings of youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. (Letters of Inquiry)

William T. Grant Foundation

FEBRUARY

ASSA International Grant Schemes – Australia-China Exchange Program – awarded to teams of two or more researchers based in Australia and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)

Army History Research Grants Scheme – Military strategy and operations, social history (war and society issues) and heritage (aspects of militaria).

Australian Army History Unit

Churchill Fellowships – to undertake overseas taxonomic research on the Australian flora and fauna.

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)

Preventive Health Research Fellowship Program – to enable preventive health knowledge development and exchange between researchers and policy/program officers to the benefit of both parties.

Australian National Preventive Health Agency (ANPHA)

• Discovery Projects – supports the highest-quality fundamental and applied research and research training across all disciplines, with the exception of clinical medicine and dentistry. (UWS Internal Deadline) Australian Research Council (ARC)

• Future Fellowships – four year fellowships to outstanding Australian and international researchers in the middle of their career. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Beamtime access. Australian Synchrotron

Invests in projects that support AWI’s integrated R&D and marketing strategy along the global wool pipeline, from farm to fashion.

Australian Wool Innovation

Outstanding Cancer Researcher of the Year Award – to honour a researcher who has made a significant contribution to any field of cancer research in NSW. (Anticipated deadline)

Cancer Institute NSW

Fellowship Award – cardiology research. (Anticipated deadline)

Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

Young Investigator Awards – for research into neurofibromatosis. (Pre-applications) Children’s Tumor Foundation

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Flagship Collaboration Fund – CSIRO Flagship Clusters – offers collaboration opportunities in key research areas of national interest.

CSIRO

Funding for projects which are likely to promote long-term contact and cooperation between Australia and India. AIC grants are intended to provide seed funds for innovative proposals relevant to the mission and goals of the Council.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australia-India Council (AIC)

Australia-China Science and Research Fund – Joint Research Centres – to support Australia-China joint research centres. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Applied Research Program – commissions research that contributes to the development of improved policies and service delivery, and/or enables the Department to better identify the health and wellbeing needs of the veteran community. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Research Grants for projects designed specifically to improve the health, welfare and well-being of the future of Australia - our children. (Full applications)

Financial Markets Foundation for Children

Tactical Research Fund – created primarily for stakeholder issues where the FRDC’s traditional Annual Open Call round would fail to deliver benefits to the stakeholder in a timely manner.

Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC)

Student Research Grants – aimed at filling gaps in research information for threatened and rare species of fish and marine vegetation in NSW. Grants are intended for use by undergraduate 3rd year major project students, or as part of an Honours, Masters or PhD project.

Fisheries Scientific Committee

Fresenius Kabi Junior Travel Award – funding to travel to attend any national or international meeting outside Australia which is of particular relevance to the field of study of the applicant.

Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA)

Ecological Research Grants Program – Environmental/ecological research projects. Gosford City Council

Career Development, Basic Research and Translational Research Grants – for research into melanoma. Harry J Lloyd Charitable Trust

Partnership Engagement Grants (Round 1) – for research into heart, stroke and blood vessel disease. Provides financial, reputational and in-kind support for quality, large-scale research applications for funding from other sources.

Heart Foundation

Visiting Research Fellowships – for research within the Humanities, with particular emphasis given to issues in Medical Ethics, Business Ethics and Environmental Ethics.

Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh

For grants in the areas of health, education, technology and science, art, and literature. James N Kirby Foundation

• PhD Top-up Scholarship – to support PhD students pursuing research in the field of type 1 diabetes. Juvenile Diabetes Research

Foundation (JDRF) • Travel Grants – to strengthen the knowledge of type 1 diabetes knowledge amongst the research community.

Health Grants – Innovator Awards Program for IBD Research – research into inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). (Letters of Inquiry)

Kenneth Rainin Foundation

LSAC Research Grant Program – funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the programs scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession.

Law School Admission Council (LSAC)

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Hollis Brownstein Research Grants Program – New Investigator Research Grants – to support research related to leukemia, lymphoma, and myelodysplastic syndromes.

Leukemia Research Foundation

Honours Research Scholarship – support to facilitate the development and utilisation of non-animal based experimental methodologies to replace the use of animals in medical research. (Anticipated deadline)

Medical Advances Without Animals Trust (MAWA)

MJFF Biosample and Tissue Resource – grants to develop and optimise assays of promising Parkinson’s disease fluid biomarkers. (Anticipated deadline)

Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF)

• MSRA Postdoctoral Fellowship – Multiple Sclerosis research. Open to those candidates who have achieved their PhD within the last 12 years. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline) MS Research Australia

• MSRA / NHMRC Betty Cuthbert Fellowship – funding to pursue Multiple Sclerosis research in the areas of biomedical, clinical or population health. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline)

NARSAD Young Investigator Grant – research relevant to schizophrenia, major affective disorders, or other serious mental illness.

NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression)

Conference Support – to support scientific conferences that aim to build the capacity of the health and medical research workforce.

National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF)

Community of Practice Scholarships for VET Practitioners – to encourage a culture of research in VET organisations by providing novice researchers the opportunity to undertake their own research project.

National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

• Career Development Fellowships – supports health and medical research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

• Centres of Research Excellence – support for teams of researchers to pursue collaborative research and develop capacity in clinical, population health and health services research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Environmental Research Grants – for environmental research. (Expressions of Interest) NSW Environmental Trust

NSW Medical Devices Fund – support for the development and commercialisation of medical devices and related technologies in NSW. (Full Applications)

NSW Ministry of Health – Office for Health and Medical Research

Young Investigator Awards – prostate cancer research. (Anticipated deadline) Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF)

Research & Development Grants – investing in rural industries research and development. (Full Proposals)

Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC)

Small Grant Proposals – to support research which contributes to the understanding of education and improvement of its practice.

Spencer Foundation

Churchill Fellowships – awarded on merit of application or demonstrated ability for future achievements. Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

Science and Medicine Research Grants – for research in the field of anti-doping. World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

MARCH

To further Australian research into Alport Syndrome and related disorders. Alport Foundation of Australia

Funds drug discovery and development research programs. Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery

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Foundation (ADDF) (Full Proposal Deadline – Letters of Intent are due two weeks before Proposal Deadline)

APSA Congressional Fellowship – support provided to serve on Capitol Hill Congressional staff to gain an understanding of the US legislative process.

American Australian Association

Projects aimed at the promotion, advancement and study of biological science in all its branches.

Australia & Pacific Science Foundation

Australia-China JCG Partnership Fund – provides support for a range of activities that promote ongoing collaboration between Australia and China in Low Emissions Coal Technology (LECT).

Australia-China Joint Coordination Group on Clean Coal Technology (JCG)

Postdoctoral and Invitational Fellowships in Japan – support for Australian researchers to undertake Postdoctoral and Invitational Fellowships in Japan. Researchers in any field of natural sciences, including technology, engineering and medicine may apply.

Australian Academy of Science

Australia Israel Research Exchange – fellowship funding for early/mid-career Australian neuroscientists to travel to Israel.

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

• Humanities Travelling Fellowships – Fellowships for Australian scholars to conduct research in all parts of the world in the field of the humanities. (Anticipated deadline) Australian Academy of the

Humanities • Publication Subsidy Scheme – support for the publication of scholarly works of high quality in the Humanities. (Anticipated deadline)

Support for dental research. Australian Dental Association – Australian Dental Research Foundation

To undertake activities that address AECL's key long term and immediate research priorities. (Anticipated deadline for Full Research Proposals)

Australian Egg Corporation Ltd (AECL)

To support original scientific projects on the biology and cultivation of Australian plants. (Preliminary Applications) Australian Flora Foundation

Project Sponsorships and Seed Grants – supports environmental research. Australian Geographic Society

Australian Marine Mammal Centre Grants – for research activities that use non-lethal techniques to improve the conservation of marine mammals through improved management of human and marine mammal interactions. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Marine Mammal Centre

Valette Williams Scholarship in Botany – for projects that contribute to the knowledge of ecology, conservation, or propagation of native plants in the Sydney and surrounding regions.

Australian Plants Society

• Discovery Early Career Researcher Award – provides more focused support for researchers and creates more opportunities for early-career researchers in both teaching and research, and research-only positions. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Australian Research Council (ARC) • Discovery Indigenous – to support research programs lead by an Indigenous Australian. (UWS Internal Deadline)

• Centres of Excellence – prestigious foci of expertise through which high-quality researchers maintain and develop Australia’s international standing in research areas of national priority. (UWS Internal Deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Mentored Clinical Researcher Fellowship – Part Time – to support clinician researchers at the early stage of their career

Australian Type 1 Diabetes – Clinical Research Network (CRN)

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to establish a research career in the field of type 1 diabetes.

Research in brain illnesses and neurological disorders as well as brain and spinal injuries. (Anticipated deadline) Brain Foundation

Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme – Bowel Cancer Australia has joined with Cancer Australia and other major cancer charities to improve funding for bowel cancer research. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline)

Bowel Cancer Australia

Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme – for research into cancer. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline)

Cancer Australia

Research Project Grants – support for research at both fundamental and clinical levels, into the causes, prevention or treatment of cancer. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline)

Cancer Council NSW

• Research Equipment Grants – funding for key research platforms, core equipment and capacities to enhance the cancer research effort in NSW.

Cancer Institute NSW • Adolescent and Young Adult Clinical Training Fellowships – funds positions for oncology specialists to work specifically with Adolescents and Young Adults. (Anticipated deadline)

Travel Grants – available to CNSA members to attend a local, national or international conference. (Anticipated deadline)

Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA)

Travel Grants for Early Career Researchers – enables early career researchers to attend international conferences.

CASS Foundation (Contributing to Australian Scholarship & Science)

Seed funds for innovative proposal relevant to the mission and goals of the Council. (Expressions of Interest)

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australia-China Council

• Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF) – supports Australian researchers to collaborate with Indian partners on leading edge science and technology.

Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education • Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science – awarded for

outstanding achievements in science. Jill Landsberg Trust Fund Scholarship – an ongoing postgraduate scholarship in the field of Applied Ecology. The scope of research is open to terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecology.

Ecological Society of Australia

New Therapy – Commercialization Grants – to drive the development of new therapies for epilepsy, accelerating the advancement of research from the laboratory to the patient (Letters of Intent)

Epilepsy Therapy Project and the Epilepsy Foundation

Research into gambling. Gambling Research Australia (GRA)

To enhance the sustainability and strength of the Victorian diary industry (Anticipated deadline). Gardiner Foundation

GlaxoSmithKline Australia Award for Research Excellence – recognises outstanding achievements in medical research and facilitates career development with potential importance to human health and Australian research. (Anticipated deadline)

GlaxoSmithKline Australia

Project Grants Funding Program – may consider providing funding as a ‘Gap Funder’ through the NHMRC Project Grant Scheme. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline)

HeartKids Australia

Systems of managing land, water, plants, animals in ways which will enhance food productivity. Hermon Slade Foundation

General Call – Work in partnership with the horticulture sector to invest in programs that provide benefit to the Australian horticultural industry. (Anticipated deadline)

Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL)

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Research Grants – supports international and interdisciplinary collaborations in basic research, focusing on complex mechanisms of living organisms. (Compulsory pre-registration and Letters of Intent)

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

• IASP Collaborative Research Grants – supports international, interdisciplinary collaborations in pain research. International Association for the

Study of Pain (IASP) • IASP Research Symposium – sponsors research symposia on topics of interest to basic scientists and clinical researchers.

Various opportunities – for research into type 1 diabetes. (Anticipated deadline)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

An independent Trust which awards grants for a wide variety of purposes in law related fields.

Law and Justice Foundation of NSW

Translational Research Program – supports translational leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)

Next Wave and Transit Voyage Science Program – transit voyages for researchers, early career researchers and students to carry out underway or opportunistic science.

Marine National Facility

Research to prevent meningitis and septicaemia, improve survival rates and outcomes. (Preliminary Proposals) Meningitis Research Foundation

Small Grants Program – for projects which focus on addressing disadvantage in regards to women and children. Mercy Foundation

Injury Strategy: Small Grant Round (Round 2 – Service Development and Improvement) – to develop initiatives in trauma and injury management for people injured in motor vehicle crashes in NSW across the continuum of care.

Motor Accidents Authority

Project Grants – Multiple Sclerosis research. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline) MS Research Australia

Senior Research Awards – for investigators with an interest in myeloma who have been working in blood cancer research for a minimum of five years. (Anticipated deadline)

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)

NACADA Research Grants – supporting research within the academic advising field.

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)

Innovation Research Grant Program – supports transformative projects that will significantly move the field of brain tumour research forward. (Letters of Intent)

National Brain Tumor Society

National Infrastructure Grants – to ensure that Australian breast cancer researchers have access to the technology, materials and core capacities required for them to perform at the highest international level. (Anticipated deadline)

National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF)

Large Grants for Research on Gambling Disorders – support for discrete, specified, circumscribed research projects related to gambling disorders. (Letters of Intent)

National Center for Responsible Gambling (NCRG)

National Vocational Education and Training Research Program – for research relevant to the contemporary tertiary education and training environment.

National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

Project Grants – supports health and medical research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Sports Research and Injury Prevention Scheme – research grants for sports injury prevention. (Anticipated deadline) NSW Sporting Injuries Committee

Supports high-quality, high-impact, novel research that has a high likelihood of success and of resulting in methods or products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure

Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC)

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integrity in sport. (Pre-applications)

Ramaciotti Biomedical Research Award – supports biomedical research.

Perpetual Foundation – Ramaciotti Foundation

Paediatric Endocrine Care Research Grants – Paediatric Endocrinology research. Pfizer Australia

PCF-Honorable A. David Mazzone Special Challenge Award Research Program – supports large-scale research projects. Proposals must be from teams capable of providing unique scientific expertise to the solution of a significant problem in prostate cancer research. (Anticipated deadline)

Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF)

Research into marine life. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Sea World Research and Rescue Foundation Inc (SWRRFI)

Fresenius Kabi Cancer Services Pharmacist Grant – funding for a research project in the area of oncology, haematology, stem cell transplantation or palliative care.

Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)

Travel Grants, Research Fellowships and Grants-in-Aid – to encourage and promote research and investigation in the fields of natural science and social science, including economics which relate to the development, management and use of pastures.

South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) – AW Howard Memorial Trust

Dan David Prize – Scholarships – scholarships to outstanding doctoral and post-doctoral students of exceptional promise in the chosen fields.

Tel Aviv University - Dan David Foundation

Research Fellowship Programme for Foreign Citizens – travel and research grants in the fields of Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering and Technological Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities are awarded to highly qualified PhD students/researchers to conduct part of their research in Turkey.

TUBITAK-BIDEB – The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

For the use of its powerful grid technology for projects that benefit humanity. World Community Grid

APRIL

Dementia Grants Program – for research in a dementia-relevant area. Alzheimer's Australia

Australia to USA Fellowships – business, science, technology, medicine and engineering. American Australian Association

PhD Research Grants – for autism research. (Anticipated deadline) Apex Foundation – Trust for Autism

To support fundamental and translational research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer.

Association for International Cancer Research (AICR)

France-Australia Science Innovation Collaboration Program Early Career Fellowships – to support high calibre Australian and French early career researchers nominated by their institutions, to expand research and innovation activities and to initiate substantial research networks and linkages to support both countries’ research and innovation priorities. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Academy of Science

Support of projects in biomedical research in Universities. Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA)

Student Travel Bursary – small grants to Honours, Masters and PhD students who wish to travel to national or international conferences or workshops relevant to both the student’s research program in taxonomy or systematics and

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)

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the ABRS Research Priorities. (Anticipated deadline)

Funds consumer research, representation, or education projects in relation to communications issues in Australia.

Australian Communications Consumer Action Network

• Research Grants – for research into diabetes. (Anticipated deadline).

Australian Diabetes Society (ADS) • ADS Kellion Award – awarded to an Australian who has made an outstanding contribution in diabetes research, clinical or service areas in Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

AHURI Top-up Scholarships – housing and urban studies. Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

Postgraduate Research Awards – for access to facilities at ANSTO for research projects associated with nuclear science, or its applications.

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)

Young Tall Poppy Science Awards – for excellence in early career research across all the sciences including mathematics. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Institute of Policy & Science (AiPS)

Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) – funding for research infrastructure, equipment and facilities. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award – supports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centres around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology.

Cancer Research Institute (CRI)

Drug Discovery Initiative Awards – research into neurofibromatosis. Drug Discovery Initiative Awards fund pilot stage drug testing offering seed grants of $25,000 for in vitro studies and $50,000 for in vivo studies.

Children’s Tumor Foundation

Endeavour Awards – for high achieving Australian students, researchers and professionals to undertake short or long term study, research and professional development in a broad range of disciplines in participating countries. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Diabetes Australia Research Trust (DART) Grants – for research into diabetes. Diabetes Australia

• Australian Ecology Research Award – recognises excellence in research in Australian ecology.

Ecological Society of Australia • Student Research Awards – grants for supporting research conducted by student members. (Anticipated deadline)

Research Awards – to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields. Google

Grand Challenges Explorations – fosters innovation in global health research. (Anticipated deadline) Grand Challenges in Global Health

• Collaboration and Exchange Awards (Round 1) – offers Heart Foundation-funded scholars and postdoctoral fellows additional funding to visit Australian and overseas research facilities in order to develop collaborations that have the potential to further and strengthen their research activity and career.

Heart Foundation • Future Leader Fellowships – offers two levels of Future Leader Fellowships for PhD graduates 3-10 years post-PhD.

• Postdoctoral Fellowships – available to PhD graduates in their first 3 years after obtaining their PhD.

• Travel Grants – to support the development of early career cardiovascular researchers. (Anticipated deadline)

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For research projects relevant to improving the quality of life or treatment for individuals with neuromuscular or musculoskeletal pathologies who use or may benefit from prostheses and orthoses.

International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics (ISPO ANMS Inc.)

Core Funding Area Grants – supports research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. (Online funding inquiry submissions)

John Templeton Foundation

Diabetes Research Innovation Award – for outstanding researchers in the field of type 1 diabetes for the publications or patents demonstrating the highest innovation, impact and importance. (Anticipated deadline)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

Australian Bicentennial Scholarships and Fellowships – to enable Australian graduates to undertake approved research in the United Kingdom. (Anticipated deadline)

King’s College London – Menzies Centre for Australian Studies

• Synuclein Therapeutic Acceleration Program – grants to advance development of mid-to late-stage alpha-synuclein therapeutic lead small molecules/biologics.

Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF)

• LRRK2 Pharmacodynamic Assays – grants to identify and validate robust biological measures of LRRK2 function useful for therapeutic development. (Pre-proposals)

• Therapeutic Pipeline Program – grants to accelerate therapeutic development (early screening, hit-to-lead optimisation, pre-IND testing, clinical studies) around key Parkinson’s disease targets of particular interest to MJFF. (Pre-proposals)

Injury Strategy: Small Grant Round (Round 3 – Education and Training) – to develop initiatives in trauma and injury management for people injured in motor vehicle crashes in NSW across the continuum of care.

Motor Accidents Authority

MSRA-NHMRC Trip Fellowship – this 2 year part-time fellowship provides the opportunity to undertake a practical project and to develop a leadership role in the uptake of evidence in Multiple Sclerosis. (Apply via NHMRC – Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

MS Research Australia

Research Fellow Award – funding to researchers with less than five years experience (post graduate degree) and working under the supervision of a research sponsor. (Anticipated deadline)

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)

• Early Career Fellowships – provides a vehicle for training in basic research either in Australia or overseas (where appropriate), to enable Fellows to work on research projects with nominated advisers. (UWS Internal Deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

• Partnership Projects – supports health and medical research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

• TRIP Fellowships – aims to support health and medical professionals who are at an early stage of their research career, rather than those already established in research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Harold White Fellowships – fellowships are open to established Australian and international researchers or writers in any discipline in which the Library has strong collections.

National Library of Australia

Supports research related to the Marfan syndrome and related connective tissue disorders. National Marfan Foundation (NMF)

Small Environmental Grant Scheme – to support Australian biodiversity projects. (Expressions of Interest) Norman Wettenhall Foundation

Cancer Research Grants – clinical research in the fields of oncology. Pfizer Australia

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John O’Sullivan Postgraduate Scholarships – awarded to students conducting research in the area of the utilisation of scarce radio spectra. (Anticipated deadline).

Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF)

M A Ingram Trust Grant – to support the preservation and study of Australian mammals and birds. State Trustees – M A Ingram Trust

Supports research on euthanasia. (Anticipated deadline) William and Charlotte Parks Foundation for Animal Welfare

MAY

Oxford Nuffield Medical Fellowship – Fellowships in either a Clinical Medicine or Medical Science department of the University.

Australian Academy of Science

Travel Award – to attend acoustics conferences. (Anticipated deadline) Australian Acoustical Society (AAS)

Funding research in Australia that has the power to make significant breakthroughs in cancer diagnosis and treatment. (First Stage Applications)

Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF)

Provides grants to conduct R&D projects covering coal technology. (Short Proposals)

Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP)

Research Fellowships – to undertake research in areas of science and technology requiring the use of the OPAL research reactor and other facilities at ANSTO. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)

• Chadwick Biodiversity Fellowship – provides an opportunity for a recent PhD graduate to establish a career in biodiversity research. (Anticipated deadline).

Australian Museum

• Geddes Visiting Fellowships – for researchers and students to visit the Australian Museum and work with the Museum’s scientists on the collections and in the field. (Anticipated deadline).

• Geddes Postgraduate Awards – to encourage the direct involvement of postgraduate students in the Museum’s scientific activities. (Anticipated deadline).

• Eureka Prizes – The prizes reward excellence in the fields of research innovation, science leadership, school science and science journalism and communication.

Special Research Initiative for an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Researchers’ Network – to fund a national collaborative Network, to be led by experienced Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers. (Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Research Grants and APRF Student Research Grants – for research in the field of Periodontology. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Society of Periodontology (ASP) – Australian Periodontology Research Foundation (APRF)

Spinal research projects. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Australian Spinal Research Foundation

Australian Bird Environment Foundation Grants – for projects pertaining to Australian native birds and their habitats.

Bird Observation and Conservation Australia (BOCA) – Australian Bird Environment Fund (ABEF)

Australia-China Science and Research Fund – Group Missions – to support Australia-China group missions. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

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Applied Research Program – commissions research that contributes to the development of improved policies and service delivery, and/or enables the Department to better identify the health and wellbeing needs of the veteran community. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

• Vanguard Grants – funding to test the feasibility of innovative concepts in public health and/or health services – including clinical services delivery – that may lead to larger, more rigorous testing in the future.

Heart Foundation • Postdoctoral Fellowships (Biomedical, Clinical and Public Health), Overseas Research Fellowships and Career Development Fellowships – to support the development of cardiovascular researchers. (Anticipated deadline)

Postdoctoral Fellowships – for research into the prevention, causes, diagnosis, treatment and long term support for stroke. (Anticipated deadline)

Heart Foundation and National Stroke Foundation co-funded Fellowships

Arts, Community Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing International Travel, Education, Travel and Conference, Environment and Conservation, and Science Grants. (Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

Ian Potter Foundation

IASP John J. Bonica Trainee Fellowship & IASP International Trainee Fellowship – supports training in pain research.

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Grants-in-Aid – to foster innovation research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers like leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and related blood disorders. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Leukaemia Foundation

Target Validation – grants to nominate new therapeutic targets for Parkinson’s disease. (Pre-proposals)

Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF)

Awards and Fellowships – supporting archival research. National Archives of Australia

Program Grants – support for teams of high calibre researchers to pursue broad based, multi-disciplinary and collaborative research activities in important areas of health and medical research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

For research on rosacea. National Rosacea Society

Eye research. Ophthalmic Research Institute of Australia (ORIA)

• Ramaciotti Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research – honours an individual who has made an outstanding discovery (or discoveries) in clinical or experimental biomedical research. Perpetual Foundation – Ramaciotti

Foundation • Ramaciotti Establishment and Equipment Grants –

awarded to groups or individuals in universities undertaking biomedical research.

Neuroscience Research Grants – advancing basic and clinical research in the fields of neuroscience including psychiatry, pain medicine, neurology, and associated areas. (Anticipated deadline)

Pfizer Australia

Post Higher Degree Awards – designed to help younger Fellows re-establish their research after award of a higher degree or within the first two years of returning to Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

Grants, Scholarships, Fellowships and Awards – supporting new and emerging general practitioner researchers to conduct research into primary health care, and general practice. (Anticipated deadline)

Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)

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Small Grant Proposals – to support research which contributes to the understanding of education and improvement of its practice.

Spencer Foundation

• Senior Medical Research Fellowship – intended to provide both salary and project grant support for outstanding Australian medical researchers.

Sylvia and Charles Viertel Charitable Foundation

• Clinical Investigatorships – for medical graduates or graduates of other clinical disciplines who have completed both their clinical and research training which will normally be at doctoral level and are commencing their first definitive clinical position, or have been in such a post for no more than 24 months.

Various opportunities – supports basic research in all branches of anthropology. Wenner-Gren Foundation

JUNE

Funds drug discovery and development research programs. (Full Proposal Deadline – Letters of Intent are due two weeks before Proposal Deadline)

Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)

ACU Titular Fellowships – to encourage the movement of staff between industry/commerce/public service and the universities with a view to forging reciprocally beneficial links. (Anticipated deadline)

Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU)

Australia Awards Fellowships – provides short term opportunities for study, research and professional attachment programs in Australia delivered by Australian organisations.

AusAID

Scopus Young Researcher of the Year Awards – honours Australasian researchers for their achievements and dedicated contributions to various fields of research. (Anticipated deadline)

Australasian Research Management Society (ARMS)

• Award for Doctoral Research in Education – is intended as a recognition of excellence in educational research by doctoral students. (Anticipated deadline). Australian Association for Research

in Education (AARE) • Postgraduate Student Research Awards – to provide support for postgraduate students to attend and participate in the annual conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. (Anticipated deadline)

RM Gibson Scientific Research Grants – designed specifically to support emerging researchers in all fields of ageing. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Association of Gerontology (AAG)

ADS-Sanofi Diabetes Research Grants – for clinical projects that provide improved health outcomes to Australians suffering from diabetes and/or their ability to fill gaps in scientific knowledge. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Diabetes Society (ADS)

Project Sponsorships and Seed Grants – supports environmental research. Australian Geographic Society

Supports research directed at improving canine health. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian National Kennel Council – Canine Research Foundation

For research and development so as to enhance the opportunities for sustainable growth of the Australian pork industry. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Pork Limited

Centres of Excellence – prestigious foci of expertise through which high-quality researchers maintain and develop Australia’s international standing in research areas of national priority. (UWS Internal Deadline for Full Proposals)

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Beamtime access. Australian Synchrotron

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Research Grants – to support research into any aspect of cancer nursing. (Anticipated deadline)

Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA)

• Program Grant – Translational Research – to support multi-disciplinary approaches to cancer research that will rapidly translate research discoveries into clinical programs and/or policy. Cancer Institute NSW

• Research Infrastructure Grants – to support major cancer research equipment and biobanks linked to the Translational Cancer Research Centres. (Anticipated deadline)

• Endeavour Awards – for high achieving Australian students, researchers and professionals to undertake short or long term study, research and professional development in a broad range of disciplines in participating countries. (Anticipated deadline). Department of Industry, Innovation,

Science, Research and Tertiary Education

• Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program – to deliver significant economic, collaborative, environmental and social benefits to Australia by supporting end-user driven research partnerships between publicly funded researchers and end-users to address clearly articulated, major challenges that require medium to long-term collaborative efforts.

Tactical Research Fund – created primarily for stakeholder issues where the FRDC’s traditional Annual Open Call round would fail to deliver benefits to the stakeholder in a timely manner.

Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC)

Travel Bursaries – for travel, study tours or conference attendance that align with strategic research, development and extension priorities and can demonstrate that benefits will accrue to sector and/or existing research.

Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC)

• Australian Indigenous Scholarships – offered to identified Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples to undertake a PhD or Masters (by research) and build research capacity in the community. Heart Foundation

• Health Professional Scholarships – encourages health professionals (including allied health professionals) to undertake a PhD in cardiovascular research.

IELTS Joint-Funded Research Program – support for projects in relation to the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).

International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

Travel Grants – to strengthen the knowledge of type 1 diabetes knowledge amongst the research community.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

High-Priority, Short-Term Bridge Awards – for research into type 1 diabetes. (Anticipated deadline)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

Blackmores Dr Paul Beaumont Research Fellowship – for research into nutritional and/or lifestyle aspects of Macular Degeneration. (Anticipated deadline)

Macular Degeneration Foundation (MD Foundation)

Allied Health Sciences Scholarship – this research scholarship is open to graduates in any of the health sciences who have enrolled for a PhD in an Australian University and who have completed the first stage of their doctoral program. (Anticipated deadline)

Menzies Foundation

Injury Strategy: Small Grant Round (Round 4 – Quality Practice Improvement in a Clinical Setting) – to develop initiatives in trauma and injury management for people injured in motor vehicle crashes in NSW across the continuum of care.

Motor Accidents Authority

MSRA / NHMRC Betty Cuthbert Scholarships – granted to students who plan to undertake a PhD focused on improving MS Research Australia

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our understanding of the biomedical causes of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) or improving the ongoing management of MS. (Apply via NHMRC – UWS Internal Deadline)

• Novel Concept Awards – aims to support breast cancer research projects that challenge existing paradigms or break new theoretical ground. (Anticipated deadline) National Breast Cancer Foundation

(NBCF) • Conference Support – to support scientific conferences that aim to build the capacity of the health and medical research workforce.

• Postgraduate Scholarships – to support outstanding Australian health and medical graduates early in their career. (UWS Internal Deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

• Development Grants – supports the commercial development of a product, process, procedure or service that if applied, would result in improved health care, disease prevention or provide health cost savings. (UWS Internal Deadline)

Supports research related to the Marfan syndrome and related connective tissue disorders. (Anticipated deadline) National Marfan Foundation (NMF)

Funds scientific/medical research relevant to the causes, treatment, prevention or cure of retinal dystrophies. (Anticipated deadline)

Retina Australia

Research Entry Scholarships – designed to assist Advanced Trainees or younger Fellows begin a career in research and are for stipend only. (Anticipated deadline)

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

L’Oreal International Fellowships Programme for Young Women in Life Sciences – to promote the contribution of young women from all over the world in research developments in the field of life sciences. (Anticipated deadline)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Various opportunities – supports basic research in all branches of anthropology. Wenner-Gren Foundation

For the use of its powerful grid technology for projects that benefit humanity. World Community Grid

JULY

Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research – honouring young Australians who have achieved excellence in scholarship in the social sciences. (Anticipated deadline).

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)

Target Identification in Lupus (TIL) Grants – funds research that will accelerate the development of new treatments for lupus. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Alliance for Lupus Research

BrightFocus Research Grants – Macular Degeneration Research – to support basic research into the causes and potential treatments of this disease. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF)

National Research Program – Fellowships, Scholarships, Grants in Aid and Project Grants – for research into the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of arthritis. (Anticipated deadline)

Arthritis Australia

Postgraduate Fellowship Award – for postgraduate students in Australian and Israeli universities to undertake part of their research for their PhD in matching institutions in Israel and Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

Australia-Israel Scientific Exchange Foundation (AISEF)

Grants – seed funding for innovative proposals relevant to the aims and objectives of the Institute. (Anticipated deadline) Australia-Thailand Institute (ATI)

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Various opportunities – supports research through the sponsorship of research conferences that focus on rapidly developing fields of research; the awarding of travelling fellowships for the exchange of scientific ideas; and provides research awards in fields such as conservation biology, and population and environment. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Academy of Science

Education Grant – to encourage research in acoustics. (Anticipated deadline) Australian Acoustical Society (AAS)

PhD Scholarships – for worthy research projects in the medical and health arenas. (Anticipated deadline) Australian Rotary Health

Research in brain illnesses and neurological disorders as well as brain and spinal injuries. (Anticipated deadline) Brain Foundation

• Early Career Fellowships – salary and project support to encourage the very best researchers (up to five years post doc) to choose cancer research as their career.

Cancer Institute NSW

• Career Development Fellowships – salary and project support to encourage the very best researchers to continue independent cancer research that is nationally and internationally competitive.

• Future Research Leader Fellowships – salary and project support to encourage high calibre interstate and international emerging researchers to establish a substantial program of research at a NSW institution.

• Future Research Leader Grant – aims to strengthen cancer research capacity by funding new high level academic posts and supporting outstanding research teams in NSW hospitals, universities or other institutions. (Anticipated deadline).

Research and Development Grants – invests in research, development and extension of knowledge from projects within three programs which are aimed at enhancing the environmental, economic and social performance of the Australian cotton industry. (Anticipated deadline for Preliminary Research Proposals).

Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC)

Applied Research Program – commissions research that contributes to the development of improved policies and service delivery, and/or enables the Department to better identify the health and wellbeing needs of the veteran community. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

The Nature Conservancy Applied Conservation Award – to fund a postgraduate scholarship in the field of applied conservation science. To support research directed towards practical conservation. (Anticipated deadline)

Ecological Society of Australia

Fellowship, Grant-In-Aid, Junior Travel Award & IBD Clinical Research Grant – research related to gastroenterology, hepatology and related disorders.

Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA)

Shaffer Grants – supports new high-impact clinical, epidemiological and laboratory research based on the Foundation’s strategic research goals. (Anticipated deadline for Preliminary Proposals)

Glaucoma Foundation

Postgraduate Scholarships – scholarships in biomedical, clinical and public health disciplines for research relevant to cardiovascular disease and its related disorders. (Anticipated deadline)

Heart Foundation

Research Scholarships

Heart Foundation and National Stroke Foundation co-funded

Postgraduate Research Scholarships – for research into the prevention, causes, diagnosis, treatment and long term support for stroke. (Anticipated deadline)

HeartKids Australia Grants-in-Aid Program – supports research and research capacity building in congenital and acquired childhood heart

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disease. (Applications scheduled to open)

IRT Research Foundation Funds research initiatives that seek to improve the mind, mobility and lifestyles of senior Australians. (Anticipated deadline)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

Various opportunities – for research into type 1 diabetes. (Anticipated deadline)

Leakey Foundation Research into human origins.

Leukaemia Foundation

Fellowships – to foster innovation research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers like leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and related blood disorders. (Anticipated deadline)

Marine National Facility Research Voyages – for time aboard the Marine National Facility's research vessel. (Anticipated deadline for Pre-proposals)

Mason Foundation

National Medical Program – Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – supports medical and scientific research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

National Ataxia Foundation Research Grant – for early or pilot phases of studies and ongoing investigations into ataxia. (Letters of Intent)

National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF)

Fellowships (Early Career, Postdoctoral and Practitioner Fellowships) – breast cancer research. (Anticipated deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Partnership Projects – supports health and medical research. (UWS Internal Deadline)

National Seniors Productive Ageing Centre (NSPAC)

Productive Ageing Research Grants – for research proposals that address priority issues relating to productive ageing. (Anticipated deadline)

Norman Wettenhall Foundation Small Environmental Grant Scheme – to support Australian biodiversity projects. (Expressions of Interest)

Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC)

Supports high-quality, high-impact, novel research that has a high likelihood of success and of resulting in methods or products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure integrity in sport. (Pre-applications)

Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA)

PCFA Research Grants – projects with direct link to prostate cancer. (Anticipated deadline)

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

• The Jacquot Award – to provide opportunities for Nephrologists who have completed a post graduate research degree and are still at an early stage in their career, to help develop independent research programs to advance knowledge in the treatment of renal disease. (Anticipated deadline)

• Various Fellowships – for Fellows and Advanced Trainees who have formal research experience without necessarily having enrolment in a PhD or equivalent research higher degree. (Anticipated deadline)

• Faculty, Chapter & Society Awards – awards to support young talented physicians and trainees in the critical, early stages of their career in medical research and education. (Anticipated dealine)

Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF)

Research Project Grants – for scientific research that addresses issues of national priority for Australia. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest).

Sleep Health Foundation

Sleep Health Education Grant – to support the development of creative and innovative programmes for education (of the public or non-sleep health professionals) and/or outreach on sleep health-related research for a variety of audiences. (Anticipated deadline)

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Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)

Sanofi Pamela Nieman Continuum of Care Research Grant – for research into processes and outcomes that optimise medication management across the health care continuum. (Anticipated deadline)

Spencer Foundation Small Grant Proposals – to support research which contributes to the understanding of education and improvement of its practice.

State Library of New South Wales

• David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship – for the study and research of Australian history in writing and publication amongst scholars, researchers and the wider community, including internationally. (Anticipated deadline)

• Merewether Scholarship – for research associated with the nineteenth century history of New South Wales. (Anticipated deadline)

Voiceless Funding for projects which improve the lives of animals in Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

Education and Awareness – Social Science Research Grant Program – research in social science in order to obtain information that will enable more efficient doping prevention strategies.

AUGUST

Australian Academy of Science

Research Conferences, Travelling Fellowships and Research Awards – supports research through the sponsorship of conferences that focus on rapidly developing field of research, the award of travelling fellowships for the exchange of scientific ideas, and awards to support research.

Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering

Australia-China JCG Partnership Fund – provides support for a range of activities that promote ongoing collaboration between Australia and China in Low Emissions Coal Technology (LECT). (Anticipated deadline)

Australian-American Fulbright Commission

Fulbright Scholarships – promotes and supports educational and cultural exchange between Australian and America. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Housing & Urban Research Institute (AHURI)

• National Housing Research Program – housing and urban studies. (Anticipated deadline)

• AHURI Postdoctoral Fellowship – a 3 year jointly funded research position. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Institute of Criminology

Criminology Research Grants Program – for quality research which is relevant to both current and future criminal justice policy and makes a substantial and original contribution to criminological knowledge. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Rotary Health Mental Health Grants and the Geoff Betts Post Doctoral Fellowship – Mental health related research.

Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation (BEBRF)

Research directly related to blepharospasm or Meige's Syndrome.

Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA)

Travel Grants – available to CNSA members to attend a local, national or international conference. (Anticipated deadline)

Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

CSANZ Travelling Fellowships – cardiology research – for investigators in the early stage of their research career, to present at a major international conference. (Anticipated deadline)

CASS Foundation (Contributing to Australian Scholarship & Science)

Travel Grants for Early Career Researchers – enables early career researchers to attend international conferences.

Children’s Tumor Foundation Drug Discovery Initiative Awards – research into neurofibromatosis. Drug Discovery Initiative Awards fund pilot

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stage drug testing offering seed grants of $25,000 for in vitro studies and $50,000 for in vivo studies.

CPA Australia Global Research Perspectives Program – supports research worldwide that is relevant to its membership, the profession and the global business community.

Defence Health Foundation Research Grants – for medical research that is intended to benefit the Defence community. (Anticipated deadline)

Epilepsy Therapy Project and the Epilepsy Foundation

New Therapy – Commercialization Grants – to drive the development of new therapies for epilepsy, accelerating the advancement of research from the laboratory to the patient (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Gastroenterological Society of Australia (GESA)

Scholarships – research related to gastroenterology, hepatology and related disorders.

Haemophilia Foundation Australia

For medical, scientific or social research which will improve outcomes for people with haemophilia, von Willebrand disorder or related inherited bleeding disorders, and/or medically acquired blood borne viruses. (Anticipated deadline)

Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence, aggression and dominance. (Anticipated deadline)

Heart Foundation

• Partnership Engagement Grants (Round 2) – for research into heart, stroke and blood vessel disease. Provides financial, reputational and in-kind support for quality, large-scale research applications for funding from other sources.

• Travel Grants – to support the development of early career cardiovascular researchers. (Anticipated deadline)

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

Postdoctoral Fellowships – HFSP fellowships support top postdoctoral researchers that propose innovative, ground-breaking projects that have the potential to advance the knowledge in their field of study and open a new approach to the research problem.

Kidney Health Australia

Medical Research Funding – Research Grant Program (Project Grants, Medical and Science Scholarships and Nursing Scholarships) – for research into the causes, prevention and treatment of disorders of the kidney.

Law and Justice Foundation of NSW

An independent Trust which awards grants for a wide variety of purposes in law related fields. (Anticipated deadline)

Mizutani Foundation for Glycoscience

For basic studies in the field of glycoscience. (Anticipated deadline)

Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia (MNDRIA)

• MND Australia Leadership Grant – support for projects that will seek to understand the causes, provide better care, control the symptoms or find a cure for motor neurone disease. (Anticipated deadline)

• Grants-in-Aid – seed funding for research that is innovative and having a clear relationship to the causes, treatments and cures of motor neurone disease or the support of people living with motor neurone disease.

• MND Postdoctoral Fellowships – to encourage young researchers to focus their interest on motor neurone disease. (Anticipated deadline)

MS Research Australia

• Ian Ballard Travel Award – recipients will undertake a travel tour with the aim of extending and collaborating on their Multiple Sclerosis research specialty.

• MSRA Postgraduate Scholarships – granted to students who plan to undertake a PhD or are currently undertaking a

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PhD at an Australian university. The PhD will be focused on improving our understanding of the biomedical causes of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) or improving the ongoing management of MS.

• MSRA Vacation Scholarships – granted to undergraduate students of an Australian university. It is expected that the successful applicants will work on a research project supervised and managed by an established Multiple Sclerosis researcher.

Native Vegetation Council Native Vegetation Council Research Grants – for research into the conservation, restoration and management of native vegetation. (Anticipated deadline)

National Ataxia Foundation

• Young Investigator (YI) Award – to encourage young investigators to pursue a career in the field of any form of ataxia research. (Letters of Intent)

• Young Investigator (YI-SCA) Award for SCA Research – to encourage young investigators to pursue a career in spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) research. (Letters of Intent)

• Research Post-Doc Fellowship Award – for research in the field of ataxia. (Letters of Intent)

• Pioneer SCA Translational Research Award – funding for research investigations that will facilitate the development of treatments for the Spinocerebellar Ataxias (SCAs). (Letters of Intent)

National Drug Law Enforcement Research Fund (NDLERF)

Promotes quality evidence-based practice in drug law enforcement to prevent and reduce the harmful effects of illicit and illicit drug use in Australian society. (Anticipated deadline)

Nurses Memorial Centre

"Babe" Norman Scholarships – awarded to Nurses and Midwives who have exceptional research potential and are undertaking a Research Doctorate in an Australian University. (Anticipated deadline)

Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF)

John Stocker Postdoctoral Fellowships – for research in the priority research areas and/or the information science areas of information and communication technology (ICT), mathematics and engineering. (Anticipated deadline)

Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)

• Roche Research Grant on ‘Safety and Quality’ – for research into the safety and quality of medicines use in hospitals. (Anticipated deadline).

• Fresenius Kabi Cancer Services Pharmacist Grant – funding for a preceptorship, conference or research project in the area of oncology, haematology, stem cell transplantation or palliative care. (Anticipated deadline)

Sugar Research & Development Corporation (SRDC)

Research Projects, Capacity Building Projects and Grower Group Innovation Projects – to invest in strategic Research Development and Extension (RD&E), which will underpin an innovative and sustainable Australian sugarcane industry. (Anticipated deadline)

Vasculitis Foundation

Seed grants to support pilot studies in researching the etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment, including approaches that would prevent complications, and development of coping skills for living with vasculitis disease.

SEPTEMBER

Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)

Funds drug discovery and development research programs. (Full Proposal Deadline – Letters of Intent are due two weeks before Proposal Deadline)

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amfAR – The Foundation for AIDS Research

Targeted Biomedical Research – support for biomedical research projects relevant to exploring the mechanisms for HIV persistence and the potential for HIV eradication. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Research Grants – to accelerate and support drug discovery for frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) and related dementias. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent).

Australasian College of Dermatologists

F & E Bauer Research Grant – funding of research projects for up to one year.

Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM)

Bicentennial Gold 88 Endowment – for the advancement of education and research in Earth Sciences for the benefit of Economic Geology in Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Academy of Science

Visit to the National Institutes of Health in the USA for a Junior Scientist – travel support for a junior scientist to visit the National Institutes of Health in the USA. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest).

Australian Geographic Society Project Sponsorships and Seed Grants – supports environmental research.

Australian Institute of Nuclear Science and Engineering (AINSE)

AINSE Research Projects – support of projects by member universities which have an identifiable focus on nuclear and nuclear-related applications and/or on the use of ANSTO facilities expertise. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Museum Lizard Island Doctoral Fellowships – for field work at Lizard Island Research Station for a PhD student. (Anticipated deadline for Preliminary Applications)

Australian Pain Society and Australian Pain Relief Association

PhD Scholarships – to support education and research in pain. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Society for Medical Research (ASMR)

ASMR Research Awards – support for a postgraduate student member of the ASMR to undertake or a recently graduated postdoctoral member to undertake a short period of research in a laboratory outside of Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Synchrotron Beamtime access. (Anticipated deadline)

Business / Higher Education Round Table (B-HERT)

B-HERT Awards – recognises outstanding achievements in collaboration between business and higher education in the fields of research and development and education and training. (Anticipated deadline)

Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)

E (Ben) & Mary Hochhausen Access Technology Research Award – for research in the field of access technology for people living with vision loss. (Anticipated deadline for Initial applications)

Cancer Institute NSW

Translational Cancer Research Units – to encourage hubs of academic and clinical leaders with both substantial cancer treatment facilities and meritorious programs in relevant research disciplines to integrate into interdisciplinary and translational enterprises focussing on cancer control.

Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

CSANZ Research Scholarship – for research into cardiovascular disease and related disorders. (Anticipated deadline).

Dairy Australia Research and Development Project Grants – support for projects that benefit the dairy industry. (Preliminary Applications)

Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency

Natural Resource Management Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Research Grants Program – grants for research institutions to provide regional Natural Resource Management organisations with regionally relevant climate change impacts information and scenarios for direct use in

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natural resource management planning. (Anticipated deadline) Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Australia-China Science and Research Fund – Group Missions – to support Australia-China group missions. (Anticipated deadline)

Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport

Anti-Doping Research Program – for scientific and social science anti-doping research. (Anticipated deadline)

Financial Markets Foundation for Children

Research Grants for projects designed specifically to improve the health, welfare and well-being of the future of Australia - our children. (Expressions of Interest)

Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC)

Annual Competitive Round – to invest in fishing and aquaculture research, development and extension activities. (Expressions of Interest).

Harvard Club of Australia

Australia-Harvard Fellowship – appeals to mid-career and senior Harvard-based science and technology researchers intending collaborative projects in Australia. (Anticipated deadline)

Heart Foundation

• Collaboration and Exchange Awards (Round 2) – offers Heart Foundation-funded scholars and postdoctoral fellows additional funding to visit Australian and overseas research facilities in order to develop collaborations that have the potential to further and strengthen their research activity and career.

• NSW Cardiovascular Research Network Research Development Project Grant – to stimulate, fund and support new collaborative research proposals relevant to cardiovascular disease, including stroke, diabetes and kidney disease. (Anticipated deadline).

• Summer Scholarships – to give undergraduate students an opportunity to participate in biomedical, clinical or public health research projects which are broadly related to heart, stroke and blood vessel disease. (Anticipated deadline).

• Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Cardiovascular Research (Anticipated deadline)

HeartKids Australia Grants-in-Aid Program – supports research and research capacity building in congenital and acquired childhood heart disease. (Anticipated deadline)

Ian Potter Foundation Arts, Community Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing International Travel, Education, and Travel and Conference Grants. (Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

Institute of Foresters of Australia Maxwell Ralph Jacobs Grants – to support worthy projects in any field of forestry research. (Anticipated deadline)

Law School Admission Council (LSAC)

LSAC Research Grant Program – funds research on a wide variety of topics related to the mission of LSAC. Specifically included in the programs scope are projects investigating precursors to legal training, selection into law schools, legal education, and the legal profession. (Anticipated deadline)

Leukaemia Foundation

PhD Scholarships – to foster innovation research into the causes, diagnosis and treatment of blood cancers like leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and related blood disorders. (Anticipated deadline)

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)

Career Development Program – provides awards intended to meet the specific needs of investigators at different states of their research careers. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Mercy Foundation Grants to End Homelessness – for research that will contribute to the goal of ending homelessness. (Expressions of Interest)

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Motor Neurone Disease Research Institute of Australia (MNDRIA)

PhD Scholarship Top-up Grant – for biomedical or public health research in motor neurone disease. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

NSW Sporting Injuries Committee

NSW Sports Safety Awards – to recognise outstanding achievement in the research and prevention of sports related injuries and the adoption of safe sport practices. (Anticipated deadline)

Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

Travelling Fellowships – to assist established researchers or clinicians undertake a short period of research or study overseas including sabbatical or study leave. (Anticipated deadline)

Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC)

Research & Development Grants – investing in rural industries research and development. (Anticipated deadline for Preliminary Research Proposals)

Scleroderma Foundation Systemic sclerosis research.

Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)

Celgene Grant – Information Technology in Hospital Pharmacy – for research looking at innovative uses of information technology in hospital pharmacy. (Anticipated deadline)

Susan G. Komen for the Cure Various opportunities – for research into breast cancer. (Anticipated deadline for Pre-applications)

The Commonwealth Fund

Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice – provides a unique opportunity to spend up to 12 months in the US to conduct a research study that addresses a critical issue on the health policy agenda in both the US and Australia.

Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation

Funding for research projects addressing all aspects of spinal cord lesions, nerve regeneration, trophic support of lesioned neurons, and functional changes induced by lesions – preferentially in mammals. (Anticipated deadline for Executive Summary)

Workers' Compensation Dust Diseases Board

Research Grants Scheme – for research into dust diseases. (Anticipated deadline)

World Community Grid For the use of its powerful grid technology for projects that benefit humanity.

OCTOBER

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)

Workshop Program – promotion of research in the social sciences. (Anticipated deadline)

Alzheimer's Australia Postgraduate Scholarships – for research in a dementia-relevant area. (Anticipated deadline)

American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF)

BrightFocus Research Grants – Alzheimer's Disease Research – to support promising research in fields ranging from molecular biology to epidemiology. (Anticipated deadline)

Association for International Cancer Research (AICR)

To support fundamental and translational research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. (Anticipated deadline)

Australasian Podiatry Council – Australian Podiatry Education and Research Foundation

For research into the causes, prevention and treatment of foot problems. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS)

National Taxonomy Research Grant Program – Research Grants and Capacity-Building Grants – grants for taxonomic research. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Museum Lizard Island Postdoctoral Fellowships – support for research at the Lizard Island Research Station by researchers

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whose PhD degree was awarded within the past five years. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Rotary Health Ian Scott PhD Scholarships – for research relevant to mental health.

Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

ASBMB Fellowships – awarded to early career researchers, normally resident in Australia, in recognition of their outstanding work in the area of biochemistry or molecular biology. (Anticipated deadline)

Barth Syndrome Foundation Research Grant Program – for basic science and clinical research on the natural history, biochemical basis, and treatment of Barth syndrome. (Anticipated deadline)

Cancer Research Institute (CRI)

Postdoctoral Fellowship Award – supports qualified young scientists at leading universities and research centres around the world who wish to receive training in cancer immunology. (Anticipated deadline)

Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand

RT Hall Prize – awarded to an individual investigator for a coherent body of work, which advances knowledge of the cardiovascular system and its diseases. (Anticipated deadline)

Dystonia Medical Research Foundation

Fellowships and Research Grants – supports research related to the causes, mechanisms, prevention, and treatment of all forms of dystonia. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Ecological Society of Australia

• Wiley Fundamental Ecology Award – a postgraduate student research award in the field of fundamental ecology. (Anticipated deadline)

• Student Research Awards (Round 2) – grants for supporting research conducted by student members. (Anticipated deadline)

Getty Foundation

Library Research Grants – support for costs relating to travel and living expenses to scholars whose research requires use of specific collections housed in the Getty Research Institute. (Anticipated deadline)

Google Research Awards – to support cutting-edge research in Computer Science, Engineering, and related fields.

Grains Research & Development Corporation (GRDC)

Grains Industry Research Scholarships – support for post graduate training in disciplines that contribute to the research, development and extension priorities of the GRDC and the Australian grains industry. (Anticipated deadline)

John Templeton Foundation

Core Funding Area Grants – supports research on subjects ranging from complexity, evolution, and infinity to creativity, forgiveness, love, and free will. (Online funding inquiry submissions)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF)

Travel Grants – to young researchers in order to strengthen the knowledge of type 1 diabetes knowledge amongst the research community.

National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF)

• Translational Research Grants – awarded to outstanding research teams to further develop cancer research capacity and competitiveness in translational research. (Anticipated deadline)

• Conference Support – to support scientific conferences that aim to build the capacity of the health and medical research workforce. (Anticipated deadline)

National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) – NCI National Facility

Merit Allocation Scheme – Aust. Partnership for Advanced Computing - Access to the APAC National Facility based on merit and free of charge. (Anticipated deadline)

National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

John Cade Fellowship in Mental Health Research – for visionary, innovative research leaders with outstanding records of achievement in the mental health field.

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(Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

National Humanities Center Fellowships – for advanced studies in the humanities. (Anticipated deadline)

National Stroke Foundation Various opportunities in the area of stroke research. (Anticipated deadline)

Norman Wettenhall Foundation Small Environmental Grant Scheme – to support Australian biodiversity projects. (Expressions of Interest)

NSW Ministry of Health – Office for Health and Medical Research

NSW Medical Devices Fund – support for the development and commercialisation of medical devices and related technologies in NSW. (Anticipated deadline for Preliminary Applications)

Psychology Beyond Borders (PBB)

PBB Mission Awards – PBB is an international non-profit organisation focusing on the psychosocial impacts of terror attacks, armed conflicts, and natural disasters. PBB funds research and service-oriented projects that support work in this area. (Anticipated deadline)

Roche Organ Transplantation Research Foundation (ROTRF) Supports transplantation-related research. (Letters of Intent)

Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF)

John Stocker Postgraduate Scholarships – for research in the priority research areas and/or the fields of information and communication technology (ICT), mathematics and engineering. (Anticipated deadline).

Spencer Foundation Small Grant Proposals – to support research which contributes to the understanding of education and improvement of its practice.

State Library of New South Wales Various Fellowships – supporting research requiring the use of the resources of the State Library of NSW. (Anticipated deadline)

Sugar Research & Development Corporation (SRDC)

Postgraduate Research Scholarships – provides opportunities for postgraduate students to undertake training in disciplines compatible with SRDC's research priorities. (Anticipated deadline)

TUBITAK-BIDEB – The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Research Fellowship Programme for Foreign Citizens – travel and research grants in the fields of Natural Sciences, Medical Sciences, Engineering and Technological Sciences and Social Sciences and Humanities are awarded to highly qualified PhD students/researchers to conduct part of their research in Turkey.

United States Institute of Peace (USIP)

Annual Grant Competition – supports peacebuilding projects. (Anticipated deadline)

VicHealth

Innovation Grants – funding to trial an innovative idea, research a new concept or methodology, or to develop better supporting evidence relevant to the theory, policy and practice of health promotion. (Anticipated deadline)

NOVEMBER

Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA)

ASSA International Grant Schemes – Australia-Netherlands Exchange Program – exchange program with the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, for researchers in the Humanities and the Social Sciences. (Anticipated deadline)

American Australian Association USA to Australia Fellowships – business, science, technology, medicine and engineering.

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American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)

Grants and Fellowships – supports studies that aim to increase understanding of the causes of suicide and factors related to suicide risk, or to test treatments and other interventions designed to prevent suicide. (Anticipated deadline)

American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF)

BrightFocus Research Grants – National Glaucoma Research – to support basic research into the causes and potential treatments of this disease. (Anticipated deadline)

American Tinnitus Association (ATA) Supports scientific studies investigating tinnitus.

Asthma Foundation NSW Asthma Research. (Anticipated deadline)

AusAID

Australia Awards Fellowships – provides short term opportunities for study, research and professional attachment programs in Australia delivered by Australian organisations. (Anticipated deadline)

Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID)

Frank Fenner Award – open to ASID Full or Associate members who have performed a substantial portfolio of original research in Infectious Diseases. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA)

Spitfire Memorial Defence Fellowship – to support Australian defence-related studies or research. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Egg Corporation Ltd (AECL)

To undertake activities that address AECL's key long term and immediate research priorities. (Preliminary Research Proposals)

Australian Lung Foundation Research Awards Program – medical research into the cause, treatment and cure of lung conditions. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Research Council (ARC)

Linkage Projects – supports the highest-quality fundamental and applied research and research training across all disciplines, with the exception of clinical medicine and dentistry. (Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

Australian Respiratory Council

Harry Windsor Research Grants – supports research in tuberculosis, respiratory diseases due to other infections, or respiratory diseases related to tobacco use. (Anticipated deadline for Initial applications)

Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals

Bayer Hemophilia Awards Program – Special Project Award, Early Career Investigator Award and Fellowship Project Award – haemophilia research. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation - NARSAD (National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression)

NARSAD Independent Investigator Grants – research relevant to schizophrenia, major affective disorders, or other serious mental illness. (Anticipated deadline)

CSIRO

• Honours and Postgraduate Scholarships – opportunities in science and engineering for outstanding graduates. (Anticipated deadline)

• Flagship Postgraduate Scholarships – for high quality students to work on a project relevant to Flagship research. (Anticipated deadline)

Dairy Innovation Australia Limited (DIAL)

Research Grants – to provide research solutions in line with DIAL strategic objectives and priorities. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Department of Trade & Investment Research Attraction and Acceleration Program – Conference Sponsorship Program – to support research conferences being held in NSW. (Anticipated deadline)

Getty Foundation Getty Scholar Grants – grants for established scholars, artists, or writers working in the arts, humanities, or social sciences who have attained distinction in their fields.

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(Anticipated deadline)

Grand Challenges in Global Health Grand Challenges Explorations – fosters innovation in global health research. (Anticipated deadline)

Grape and Wine Research and Development Corporation (GWRDC)

Investment Applications – invests in and directs research, development and extension that supports a competitive Australian wine sector. (Anticipated deadline for Preliminary Project Applications). Honours & PhD Scholarships – to help attract postgraduate students to the field of wine, viticultural and wine business research. (Anticipated deadline)

Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) Funding Call – for research and development projects aimed at benefiting Australian horticulture. (Anticipated deadline)

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

Career Development Award – open only to former HFSP Fellows and offers three years of support for starting their first independent laboratory. (Anticipated deadline)

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

IARC-Australia Fellowship – for postdoctoral scientists who intend to pursue a career in cancer research. The Fellowship is tenable at the IARC in Lyon, France working in a research group. (Anticipated deadline)

International Reading Association Elva Night Research Grant – for research in reading and literacy. (Anticipated deadline)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

Various opportunities – for research into type 1 diabetes. (Anticipated deadline)

Kurt Weill Foundation for Music To support research and travel expenses to locations of primary source material for research on a topic related to Kurt Weill and/or Lotte Lenya.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)

Specialized Center of Research Program – to encourage multidisciplinary research focused on the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of leukemia lymphoma or myeloma. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

National Academic Advising Association (NACADA)

NACADA Research Grants – supporting research within the academic advising field. (Anticipated deadline)

National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation

National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship – supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research. (Anticipated deadline)

Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC)

Supports high-quality, high-impact, novel research that has a high likelihood of success and of resulting in methods or products that will advance the anti-doping field and ensure integrity in sport. (Pre-applications)

Rebecca L Cooper Medical Research Foundation

Medical Research Grants – for medical research into all fields of the medical sciences. (Anticipated deadline)

Research Trust Fund for the Schizophrenia Fellowship of NSW

Schizophrenia Fellowship – for individuals or research teams in the field of psychosocial research in schizophrenia. (Anticipated deadline)

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative – supports research into autism. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Tel Aviv University - Dan David Foundation

Dan David Prize – awarded for exceptional excellence and contribution to humanity in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service and business. (Anticipated deadline)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Various opportunities – supports basic research in all branches of anthropology.

DECEMBER

Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF)

Funds drug discovery and development research programs. (Full Proposal Deadline – Letters of Intent are due two

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weeks before Proposal Deadline)

American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine (ACLAM) Foundation

Research Grants in laboratory animal science and medicine. (Anticipated deadline for Letters of Intent)

Australian Acoustical Society (AAS) Travel Award – to attend acoustics conferences. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Geographic Society Project Sponsorships and Seed Grants – supports environmental research. (Anticipated deadline)

Australian Research Council (ARC)

• Industrial Transformation Training Centres – these training centres will foster close partnerships between university-based researchers and the industry members who will use the research outcomes. (Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

• Industrial Transformation Research Hubs – in these hubs, managers, researchers and industry workers will work together to address everything from our need to reduce pollution in our manufacturing processes to our struggle to compete locally with a high Australian dollar. (Anticipated UWS Internal Deadline)

Australian Rotary Health PhD Scholarships – for worthy research projects in the medical and health arenas. (Anticipated deadline)

Bupa Health Foundation Health research including research into health outcomes, health information, health policy, and health financing and ageing. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Japan Foundation, Sydney

Japanese Studies Fellowship Program – provides pre-eminent scholars, doctoral candidates and short-term researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences with the opportunity to conduct research in Japan. (Anticipated deadline)

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF)

Various opportunities – for research into type 1 diabetes. (Anticipated deadline)

Motor Accidents Authority

Injury Strategy: Small Grant Round (Round 1 – Education and Training) – to develop initiatives in trauma and injury management for people injured in motor vehicle crashes in NSW across the continuum of care. (Anticipated deadline)

National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER)

• PhD Top-up Scholarships – to attract high quality students from disciplines such as economics and the social sciences to do research relevant to NCVER’s remit. (Anticipated deadline)

• NCVER Post-graduate Research Paper Funding Round – small grants to post-graduate students to write a paper on some aspect of their post-graduate research. The research paper should aim to inform policy and practice in tertiary education and training, in particular the labour market and social outcomes from post-compulsory education. (Anticipated deadline)

Norman Wettenhall Foundation Small Environmental Grant Scheme – to support Australian biodiversity projects. (Expressions of Interest)

Perpetual Limited Grants for medical, social, environmental, religious, cultural and educational purposes. (Anticipated deadline)

Rural Industries Research & Development Corporation (RIRDC)

Global Challenges and National Rural Issues Research Projects – rural industries research and development. (Anticipated deadline for Expressions of Interest)

Wenner-Gren Foundation Various opportunities – supports basic research in all branches of anthropology.

World Community Grid For the use of its powerful grid technology for projects that benefit humanity. (Anticipated deadline)

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Please note that dates are only indicative and applicants should re-confirm exact submission dates with the Office of Research Services, Research Grants and Development Team.

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