Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO6227

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

Stream 1 (Accelerator): support the development of novel stem-cell based treatments by disease-focused, multidisciplinary teams that leverage partner funds and can articulate:

• a final product or therapy
• a feasible path to market
• an approach to regulatory processes
• a competitive advantage over comparable products
• appropriate consideration of the ethical, legal and social issues associated with treatments
• a strategy for enhancing sector capacity of key clinical, manufacturing and commercial skillsets
• potential funding leverage

Stream 2 (Accelerator): support large scale projects involving multidisciplinary teams that will focus on pre-clinical screening of new treatments using human tissues made from stem cells, that can articulate:

• a final product or therapy
• a feasible path to market
• an approach to regulatory processes
• a competitive advantage over comparable products
• appropriate consideration of the ethical, legal and social issues associated with treatments
• a strategy for enhancing sector capacity of key clinical, manufacturing and commercial skillsets
• potential funding leverage

The intended outcome of the research is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by:

• Stream 1 (Accelerator): developing novel stem cell-based therapies that have the potential to transform clinical care.
• Stream 2 (Accelerator): generating new treatments that can improve clinical care.

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

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 (MRFF) – SCTM – 2023 Stem Cell Therapies Grant Opportunity

The maximum grant duration is 5 years.

$36,000,000.00

From $3,000,000.00 to $7,000,000.00

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 Wednesday 18 October 2023

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00pm (ACT Local Time) on Wednesday 8 November 2023