Golden Ticket

Golden Ticket 2026 aims to enhance the health and medical innovation knowledge, skills and experience of high-potential WA innovators, by providing access to financial support to cover salary costs, development opportunities, and professional services (e.g. Intellectual Property (IP), regulatory affairs, reimbursement expertise) so they can validate early ideas and develop their personal capability to lead the development of innovative ventures that will benefit the WA community.

Funding will be provided on a competitive basis to selected innovators, ensuring a comprehensive package of financial and capacity-building support.

Golden Ticket 2026 is open to WA-based innovators undertaking activities at Innovation Maturity Level (IML) 2 (Idea) to IML 4 (Proof of Feasibility or Hit discovery).

Successful innovators will be awarded funding of up to $300,000, with up to $175,000 available to cover salary costs for an equivalent of 12-months full-time dedicated to the Activity, over a maximum period of 18-months and minimum 0.6FTE.

Program Status: Open for Applications

Applications Close: 1.00pm (AWST), Thursday 16 July 2026

The Guidelines and Conditions can be accessed below.

The Application Form can be accessed and submitted via the Department of Health Grant Management System.

To view the application questions, after starting an application in the Grant Management System select ‘preview’ in the top right corner, which will download the application form questions (and your responses) as a Word or PDF document. For further instructions, please refer to page 10 of the User Guide ‘Downloading the application form’.

Queries related to the Guidelines and Conditions can be directed via email to DOH.OMRI@health.wa.gov.au with the subject line beginning with ‘Query – GT2026’.

Queries regarding the application process can be directed via email to DOH.GMS@health.wa.gov.au with the subject line beginning with ‘GMS Application Assistance – GT2026’.

Information on other FHRI Fund programs can be accessed by subscribing to updates or checking the FHRI Fund current opportunities.