WA Near-miss Awards Emerging Leaders 2024-25

The WA Near-miss Awards: Emerging Leaders (WANMA EL) program (Program) targets researchers who narrowly missed out on securing a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant, which is considered a critical career milestone for researchers.

The Program aims to support the careers of early- and mid-career researchers and to build the research capacity of WA in a sustainable way by increasing the number of successful Western Australian applications to the NHMRC Investigator Grants program.

The Program is open to Western Australian early- or mid-career health and medical researchers who were deemed ‘fundable’ but not funded in the 2024 NHMRC Investigator Grants funding round, with a score of 4.5 and above (equivalent to a category 5 score).

The Program provides 3-year Fellowships to the top 2 ranked Emerging Leadership Level 1 and 2 category applicants. Other recipients will receive a $100,000 grant to support research activity over an 18-month period. Funding will be awarded to the top-ranked applicants until the funding pool is exhausted. All recipients are expected to resubmit their near-miss application to a future NHMRC Investigator Grant Opportunity.

Program Status: Open for Applications

Applications Close: 1.00pm (AWST), Friday 13 December 2024

The WANMA Emerging Leaders 2024-25 Guidelines and Conditions and Application Form can be accessed below:

Any queries related to the program can be directed to the Western Australian Department of Health, Office of Medical Research and Innovation.  

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