Closed Grant Opportunity View - GO7060

The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:

• Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct a large scale multidisciplinary project, in partnership with consumers and health services, to identify and evaluate the risk and impact of increased access to alcohol on physical and mental health for:
  • Topic A: First Nations individuals and communities
  • Topic B: adolescents and young adults.
• Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct a large scale multidisciplinary project, in partnership with consumers and health services, to identify and evaluate the risk and impact of polysubstance use and/or the use of new psychoactive substances on physical and mental health for:
  • Topic A: First Nations individuals and communities
  • Topic B: adolescents and young adults.
• Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): develop, implement and/or evaluate patient-centred approaches for the treatment of substance use disorders, through co-design with health services and consumers, for:
  • Topic A: First Nations individuals and communities
  • Topic B: adolescents and young adults
  • Topic C: women.
• Stream 4 (Incubator): develop new approaches for pain management for individuals with a current or past substance use disorder, focusing on:
  • Topic A: pharmacological approaches
  • Topic B: non-pharmacological approaches.

Applications to this grant opportunity must propose research that addresses one of the 4 Streams of research.

This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care’s website.

Applications will only be accepted from approved MRFF Eligible Organisations. A list of approved MRFF Eligible Organisations is available from the GrantConnect GO Documents and from the MRFF Eligible Organisations List on the NHMRC website.

Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the Medical Research Future Fund – Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research – 2024 Alcohol and Other Drugs Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

For Streams 1 - 3 (Targeted Call for Research grants): Within 5 years of execution of the grant schedule.

For Stream 4 (Incubator grants): Within 2 years of execution of the grant schedule.

$20,000,000.00

From $0.00 to $3,000,000.00

Applicants are advised to read the Grant Guidelines thoroughly and liaise with the MRFF Eligible Organisation that will submit the application to identify any specific requirements that the Organisation might have.

Applications must be submitted electronically using NHMRC’s online granting system (Sapphire).

Minimum Data closes at 5:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 9 October 2024

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 30 October 2024.