The Defence Health Foundation makes grants annually to medical research projects that will benefit the health and well‐being of the Defence community.

Applications need to target the following areas:
- Mild traumatic brain injury in general, and concussion and impacts relating to blast injuries
- Osteoarthritis, deterioration in muscular strength and other musculo-skeletal conditions
- Trauma resuscitation
- Family impact research that will positively affect the health and wellbeing of military and veterans’ families, for example:
    * On causes, consequences or health promotion that is designed to prevent disease, including minimising the incidence and risks of obesity, alcohol abuse and mental health disorders.
    * Rehabilitation services required for the sufferers of physical or mental ill-health, and their families.

Types of grants available:
Establishment - Value: range $25K - $50K (maximum 12 months)
Booster - Value: $100K p/a  (minimum 1 year, maximum 3 years)

External closing date: 9 August 2012, 5:00pm. (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 26 July 2012)

Further information: http://www.defencehealthfoundation.org.au/ResearchGrants/tabid/63/language/en-US/Default.aspx

In response to an increased demand for the software to support qualitatively orientated research, the university has entered into a central site licence agreement for the NVivo program. The new site licence is an “all you can eat” arrangement with an additional provision for “at home” use for staff members and postgraduates. All the details of obtaining the program can be found in here . As a part of the deal there is a provision for two advanced eWorkshops per year which will enhance the locally run introductory NVivo courses. Further details about NVivo training opportunities can be found in here. Additional questions can be directed to eResearch@flinders.edu.au.

The Beat Cancer Project (formally the South Australian Cancer Research Collaborative) administered by South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) advises a pool of funds will be available, from the 1st July 2012, for Infrastructure Funding.

Infrastructure Funding will be directed towards research infrastructure that could make an important difference to cancer prevention, treatment and knowledge across the research spectrum including applied clinical, health services and population health research fields and biomedical science.
Support services such as data management, biostatistical and health economics services will be eligible for Infrastructure Funding.
A wide range of non-workforce Infrastructure items would also be eligible.
Matched funding is required.

Value: $250,000

External closing date: Accepted throughout 2012 (currently no closing date). (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 10 business days prior to submission)

Further information: http://www.sahmri.com/research/the-beat-cancer-project/apply-for-beat-cancer-project-funding

For the latest edition of the NHMRC Tracker, featuring current news and activities, please visit NHMRC Tracker. Contents include:

• NHMRC submission to the McKeon Review
• Public consultations schedule: Strategic Review of Health and Medical Research
• Henipavirus workshop in Adelaide, 8 June 2012
• Research Committee
• Key dates for funding rounds
• Update: external assessments for Project Grants
• Breakdown of applications for Early Career Fellowships (ECF) 2012: now online
• Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) Clinical Trials Research Summit: 18 May 2012
• CEO Newsletter on Project Grants

The University of Adelaide, University of South Australia and Flinders University of South Australia invites all Research by Higher Degree (RHD) students who have commenced their program of study in the last 12 months to attend the following workshop: Ethics and Integrity in Research with Humans.

This interactive workshop aims to give participants:

Participants who attended previous workshops have commented:

“ An excellent course…highly necessary for beginning researchers”

“I am now much more confident to proceed with the ethics approval process and understand this as a useful contribution to my research”

“I think it is great that the 3 universities get together and provide this seminar. Well done!”

This free workshop will run on Tuesday 12 June (9.30am – 4pm) and Wednesday 13 June 2012 (9am – 1pm) at the University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus. Refreshments – including lunch on the Tuesday - will be provided. Current RDH students who have research projects which require human research ethics approval are strongly encouraged to attend this workshop. Places are limited.

ONLINE REGISTRATION is essential at http://www.adelaide.edu.au/ethics/human/training. Please direct any questions to hrec@adelaide.edu.au.

The Brain Foundation invites applications nationally for research grants to support research projects in clinical neurosciences.

The primary objective of the grants is to support individual researchers and research teams to conduct the highest quality research in brain illnesses and neurological disorders as well as brain and spinal injuries.

For the first time this year there will be two individual research grants, one grant for a Neurological trainee and one for a Neurosurgical trainee, for which they are the only investigators. This does not preclude trainees from applying in any of the other areas.

The 2012 Brain Foundation research grant categories are:
* Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & Other Neuro Degenerative Diseases
* Dystonia
* Cerebral Diseases
* Brain Tumours
* Epilepsy
* Neuromuscular Diseases
* Paediatric Neurology
* Neuro-trauma
* Headache and Migraine
* Neural Infections
* Other

External closing date: 2 July 2012. (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 18 June 2012)

Further information: http://brainfoundation.org.au/research/160-application-for-2010-research-grants

The Australasian Research Management Society is calling for expressions of interest in attending sister society conferences in 2012/2013 where there may be a possible discount or complimentary registration available. These conferences may include EARMA, ARMA, SRA.

ARMS are asking for any member (all Flinders Staff are eligible) interested to provide an expression of interest, of no more than two pages, with a case for support including:

1. acceptance of a paper or poster at the conference
2. promotion of ARMS interests at the conference
3. past and present contributions to ARMS

Please send the expression, to the ARMS Executive care of ARMS secretariat arms@apcaust.com.au by 1 June 2012.

The Blackmores Dr Paul Beaumont Research Fellowship for 2013 is open to researchers based in eligible Australian institutions to pursue research into nutritional and/or lifestyle aspects of Macular Degeneration, consistent with the mission of the Foundation to reduce the incidence and impact of Macular Degeneration.

Value: $50,000 p/a (2 years)

External closing date: 22 June 2012, 5 pm (EST) . (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 8 June 2012)

Further information: http://www.mdfoundation.com.au/research/researchgrants/fellowship.aspx

Applications for grants are now sought to be used for research into the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of arthritis.

The objectives of the research and professional education program are:
• To support specific research projects into arthritis and other musculoskeletal disorders
• To support and foster the career development of scientists and clinical investigators committed to research into arthritis and allied disorders

There are four categories:
• Fellowships
• Scholarships
• Grants in Aid
• Project Grants

Value: $10,000 - $50,000 (one year)

External closing date: 6 July 2012, 5pm. (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 22 June 2012)

Further information: http://www.arthritisaustralia.com.au/index.php/research-grants/research-grants-program.html

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) announce the following grant opportunities are now open.

* Innovative Grants:
Supports proposals for highly innovative research with potential significant impact on accelerating the mission of JDRF. The innovative research should have the potential for a change in the current paradigm or conventional wisdom or to lead to a seminal discovery or to be groundbreaking.
Value: USD 110K

External closing date: 16 July 2012. (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 2 July 2012)

* Training Grants:

• Postdoctoral Fellowship:
  Designed to attract qualified, promising scientists entering their professional career in the diabetes research field; intended for those in a relatively early state in their career
• Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship:
  Designed to attract qualified, promising scientists to receive full time research training and to assist these promising individuals in transitioning from a fellowship to an independent (faculty-level) position
• Career Development Award:
  Designed to attract qualified and promising scientists early in their faculty careers and to give them the opportunity to establish themselves in areas that reflect the JDRF research emphasis areas
  Value: USD 150K maximum/year for up to 5 years
• Early Career, Patient-Oriented Diabetes Research Award:
  Designed to provide crucial support to investigators who plan to pursue a career in diabetes-related clinical investigation. Awards are made in the later stages of training and include the ability for recipients to transition to independent faculty or research appointments.
  Value: USD 150K maximum/year for up to 5 years

External closing date: 16 July 2012. (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 2 July 2012)

* High-Priority, Short-Term Bridge Awards: 
Supports research grant applications that address a high priority research area for JDRF, but failed to receive funding (but scored within 10% of the funding payline for a review cycle of a research funding agency up to a year prior to the request to JDRF). Helps investigators generate additional supporting data for an amended, competitive application
Value: USD 55K
 
External closing date: 1 June 2012. (Internal Research Services Office closing date: 18 May 2012)

Further information: http://www.jdrf.org/index.cfm?page_id=103207