WA Near-Miss Awards (WANMA) Ideas Grants Program

 The 2023-24 WA Near-Miss Awards is a Program of the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund.

This program targeted researchers who narrowly missed out on securing a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant. 

The program provided funding to eligible early and mid-career researchers to enhance areas of their NHMRC Ideas Grants 2023 application that were identified through the NHMRC peer review process as being improvable.

The WANMA Ideas Grants program was available to Western Australian health and medical researchers who received a near-miss result in the previous NHMRC Ideas Grants funding round. The applicant was required to agree to resubmitting their near-miss application to a future NHMRC grant round.

Successful researchers were awarded funding of $100,000 (ex GST) to undertake health and medical research for a period of 12 months.

Program Status: Closed 

For reference, the WANMA: Ideas Grants 2023-24 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.

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