Funding Opportunities – Brain, Breast and Prostate cancer

Cure Brain Cancer Australia

2019 Innovation Grants

Close 23 April 2019; This supports new research projects in the field of brain cancer that deviate from existing paradigms and current lines of investigation. The grant is worth up to AUD 200,000 over two years.

Maximum award: AUD 200,000

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Cure Brain Cancer Australia

2019 Early Career Fellowships

Close 15 May 2019; The Cure Brain Cancer Early Career Fellowship will offer grants-in-aid of up to $115,000 per year for three years. Including up to $100,000 salary (depending on experience and academic level), and $15,000 for research costs, including up to $5,000 for travel and conferences per year.

Maximum award: AUD 200,000

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Investigator Initiated Breast Cancer research scheme

Funded by the NCBF, the scheme supports the salary and research costs of investigators with a vision to expand the scale and scope of breast cancer research in Australia. Funding is available in the following 5 categories:

  • category one – for researchers with up to three years of postdoctoral experience who are listed as co-investigators;
  • category two – for researchers with between three and seven years of postdoctoral experience, worth AUD 110,000 per year for four years;
  • category three – for researchers with between seven and 12 years of postdoctoral experience, worth AUD 130,000 per year for four years;
  • category four – for researchers with up to 12 years of postdoctoral experience, worth AUD 36,000 per year for five years;
  • category five – for practising clinicians, public health, public service, allied health professionals, nurse, or Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health members, worth AUD 175,000 per year for five years.

Applications close 3 June 2019.

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Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia Priority Impact Research Award (PIRA)

Through this mechanism, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA) launches its first call for applications under its new Research Strategy that will support strategic priority research using existing, predominantly Australian, repositories of biological samples from men with prostate cancer to better predict prostate cancer progression, or examining the impact of prostate cancer on men’s lives and the lives of their partners and their families.

Application Deadline           Monday 29 April, 2019

Award Notification                 September 2019

Funding Start Date                1 October 2019

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