Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7225

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative (the Initiative) aims to enable or support research that improves patient care and translation of new discoveries and encourage collaboration between consumers and researchers. Funding from this Initiative will support the development of new diagnoses, treatments and cures, and the translation of new discoveries into clinical practice.

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

• Stream 1: conducts small scale developmental projects.
• Stream 2: evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of multidisciplinary, consumer-centred, scalable, cost-effective and sustainable models of care for people with PASC, through co-design with consumers, clinicians and health services (including primary care services).

There are 2 Topics in Stream 1 and 6 Topics in Stream 2, please refer to the Grant Opportunity Guidelines for more information.

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 – EPCDRI – 2024 Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

July 2025

$28,000,000.00

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 26 March 2025.

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 09 April 2025.

Minimum dollar vaule amount available for individual grant recipients from this Grant Opportunity:

• Stream 1: $200,000.00
• Stream 2: No minimum

Maximum dollar value amount available for individual grant recipients from this Grant Opportunity:

• Stream 1: $1,000,000.00
• Stream 2: $3,000,000.00