Current Grant Opportunity View - GO7056

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

• Stream 1: identify and/or evaluate the physical, emotional and/or psychological impacts of fertility treatment and its outcomes on prospective parents. 
• Stream 2: conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project, co-designed with consumers, to identify the barriers and enablers to, and impact of, evidence-based help-seeking behaviour among parents when concerned during pregnancy.  
• Stream 3: identify and/or validate new predictive markers of pregnancy loss risk and/or adverse outcomes across the pregnancy continuum. 
• Stream 4: conduct a large-scale multidisciplinary project, co-designed with consumers, to identify and evaluate the impacts of perimenopause and menopause on health and wellbeing. Applications are required to:  
• investigate menopause symptoms that impact on physical health, mental health and wellbeing, including psychosocial factors 
• investigate impacts on workforce engagement and retention, including on paid and unpaid employment 
• include research participants from metropolitan areas (MM1) and regional, rural and/or remote locations (MM2-7), according to the Modified Monash Model  
• consider diverse populations (e.g. individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse communities). 
• Stream 5: investigate the biological mechanisms or risk factors that underpin:   
• Topic A: unexplained female infertility 
• Topic B: pregnancy loss and/or neonatal death 
• Topic C: early or medically induced menopause. 

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 – Emerging Priorities and Consumer Driven Research Initiative – 2024 Infertility, Pregnancy Loss and Menopause Grant Opportunities Guidelines

April – May 2025 

$25,000,000.00

From $0.00 to $5,000,000.00

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 09 October 2024. 

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