Funding for health and medical research infrastructure

Grants to establish and extend research infrastructure for world-class health and medical research in areas of unmet medical need.

Funding supports development, expansion or implementation of infrastructure such as biobanks, tissue repositories, novel platforms, secure health data environments, AI health applications, co-investment infrastructure and mRNA technology enablers.

For Stream 3, applicants must be a member of a consortia that includes at least one academic organisation and at least one other organisation (which may be industry or state/territory government) and that contributes at least 34% of project costs in cash.

Projects must be completed within 5 years of the project start date.

Applications must provide evidence from your board (or CEO or equivalent if no board) that the project is supported and can be completed and meet any costs not covered by grant funding; letters of support from each project partner/consortia partner; a list of up to 15 Chief Investigators using the template on business.gov.au (max 15 CIs and none listed on more than one application submitted per stream); a detailed project plan (max 12 pages excluding appendices); a detailed and itemised project budget; a one-page statement of how the project will contribute to the Measures of Success for the MRFF; a detailed risk management plan (max 2 pages); details of IP arrangements; and trust deed (if applicable).

Applicants must specify which stream they are applying to.