Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7221

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Genomics Health Futures Mission (GHFM) - 2024 Genomics Health Futures Grant Opportunity will provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:

Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): develop and/or implement novel genomic methods to improve diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and/or surveillance of new, emerging, and/or re-emerging infectious diseases.

Stream 1 funding is available as follows:

• Topic A: Microbial surveillance
• Topic B: Antimicrobial resistance
• Topic C: Infectious diseases.

Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): develop and/or implement pharmacogenomic approaches to reduce medication harm and adverse side effects. 

Stream 3 (Incubator): develop novel methods for using polygenic risk scores to identify subgroups of the population at high risk of common and complex diseases.

Stream 3 funding is available as follows:

• Topic A: Cardiovascular disease
• Topic B: Diabetes
• Topic C: Other common and/or complex diseases.

Stream 4 (Incubator): develop novel methods for improving the accuracy and usefulness of polygenic risk scores to stratify people with common cancers for surveillance and treatment.

Stream 4 funding is available as follows:

• Topic A: Breast cancer
• Topic B: Colorectal cancer
• Topic C: Prostate cancer
• Topic D: Other common cancers.

Stream 5 (Incubator): undertake research to enhance or streamline uptake of clinical genomics into practice. 

Stream 6 (Incubator): conduct small-scale developmental projects to establish feasible, evidence-based genomics approaches for population cohort research that focus on culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

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 – Genomics Health Futures Mission – 2024 Genomics Health Futures Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

May-June 2025 

$50,000,000.00

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 22 January 2025.

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 29 January 2025.