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Funding to accelerate success of WA early-and mid-career researchers 21 June 2022 Nearly $3.6 million in funding was recently awarded to 20 early and mid-career researchers under the WA Near Miss Awards: Emerging Leaders 2021 (WANMA) Program. The WANMA Program provides support for Western Australian researchers who have narrowly missed out on a highly sought-after National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grant. Under this program, Emerging Leadership grants provide funding to specifically enhance areas of the NHMRC application which were found to be improvable during the NHMRC peer review process. Recipients of Emerging Leadership grants will submit an improved application to the NHMRC, increasing their chances of winning a grant in a future selection round. The Emerging Leaders Fellowships provide full funding for 4 eligible WANMA applicants, enabling them to conduct work proposed in their NHMRC application, providing the benefits of that research whil... -
Funding for research to improve mental health outcomes in WA 20 June 2022 A total of $1.2 million has been awarded to Western Australian researchers through the Translation Fellowships 2021: Mental Health program. This program provides three-year Fellowships to high performing early- to mid-career researchers to conduct projects that facilitate the translation of research findings into policy and/or practice in the area of Mental Health. The program is funded by the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund which provides a secure source of funding to drive health and medical research, innovation and commercialisation. Two Fellowships of up to $600,000 have been awarded as outlined in the table below. Coordinating Principal Investigator Administering Institution Project Title Funding Awarded ... -
Funding to recognise and support leading WA researchers 01 June 2022 More than $10 million has been awarded to some of Western Australia's leading health and medical researchers through the Research Excellence Awards (REA) 2022 program. The REA program recognises and supports high-performing early-and mid-career researchers and established researchers in WA. 51 recipients have been awarded grants between $110,000 and $340,000 to spend over a two-year period. Recipients will submit a proposal outlining how the funds will be spent to support their research. The Research Excellence Awards is a program of the Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund, which is a secure funding source to drive health and medical research and help develop innovation and commercialisation in WA. The full list of recipients is outlined below: Stream One Recipients (early-and mid-career researchers) Recipient ... -
FHRI Fund supports new early phase clinical trial centre in Joondalup 23 May 2022 An early phase clinical trials centre, partly funded through the State Government’s Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund, is being established in Joondalup. Linear Clinical Research, a not-for-profit organisation, will receive $2.25 million through the FHRI Fund towards establishing the facility, which will allow more healthy volunteer early-phase clinical trials to be conducted in Western Australia. Early-phase trials are the first step in testing new medicines that have been developed in the laboratory. More than 1,200 trial participants are expected to take part in clinical trials at the centre each year, with the facility working collaboratively with the WA health system through the Joondalup Health Campus. Improving early phase clinical trial capacity in the State through increased infrastructure was one of the key priorities identified in the FHRI Fund Clinica... -
New funding for research aimed at improving health care in WA 19 May 2022 A total of $2.2 million has been awarded to Western Australian researchers through the Translation Fellowships 2021 program. This program provides three-year Fellowships to high performing early- to mid-career researchers to conduct projects that facilitate the translation of research findings into policy and/or practice in the Aboriginal health or country and regional WA health areas. The program is funded by the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund which provides a secure source of funding to drive health and medical research, innovation and commercialisation. Four Fellowships of up to $600,000 have been awarded as outlined in the table below. Coordinating Principal Investigator Administering Institution Project Title Funding...
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03/06/2021