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New partnership renews support to fight leading cause of disease burden in WA 15 May 2025 The FHRI Fund has awarded $4.5 million to establish an exciting co-funding partnership with the Cancer Research Trust. Together, the FHRI Fund and the Cancer Research Trust will invest $9 million to provide the WA Collaborative Cancer Research Grants to support teams of multi-disciplinary researchers to collaborate and generate new and important knowledge for cancer control. The program will open for applications later in 2025 and will offer $1 million per year over 5-years with the potential for renewal for an additional four years. The Cancer Research Trust will administer the grant program, with further information to be made available on the Cancer Research Trust website. Partner Organisation Funding Program Title FHRI Fund Co-contribution ... -
Supporting the unique global research resources of WA 15 May 2025 The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund has awarded $2 million in grants to support the operational costs of the most impactful cohort studies in Western Australia based on demonstrable competitive excellence. The FHRI Fund’s WA Cohort Studies – Operational Support Program (WACS-OSP) enables cohort studies to continue their contributions to the delivery of clinical outcomes, changes to health policy and translational health outcomes. The WACS-OSP recipients are shown below: Recipient Responsible Entity Funding Awarded AIRWAY The Kids Research Institute Australia on behalf of the Centre for ... -
May Open Day recognises the importance of clinical trials 14 May 2025 The next Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund Open Day will feature clinical trials and the opportunity they present to enhance the lives of Western Australians ahead of international Clinical Trials Day in May. An essential component of high-performing health systems, clinical trials drive continuous improvement of health care, ensuring patients receive the best evidence-based care available. Clinical trials activity ensures community access to cutting-edge treatments and interventions, improves the quality of care delivered within our health system, and generates substantial economic benefits for the state by attracting investment. The FHRI Fund Open Day will also celebrate Western Australia's Busselton Health Study – a long-standing cohort study of the Busselton Population Medical Research Institute (BPMRI). Since 1966, the study has been collecting and examini... -
Million dollar grants available for WA cystic fibrosis research 23 April 2025 Western Australia’s researchers tackling cystic fibrosis research projects are encouraged to apply for grants that provide valuable opportunities to advance cystic fibrosis research towards a potential cure. Applications are now open for the Western Australian Cystic Fibrosis Research Collaborative Program (CFRCP) 2025 — a co-funded partnership between Cystic Fibrosis WA and WA’s Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund. Each organisation contributed $1 million to the program, which is set to provide grants up to $200,000 over 3 years to successful applicants to enhance their careers and drive innovation in the State. The $2 m funding initiative is designed to attract and support researchers committed to exploring alternative treatment options to improve the lives of people with cystic fibrosis and includes 4 key grant streams: postgraduate top-up scholars... -
Funding injection for early-and mid-career researchers 10 April 2025 A total of $4.8 million has been awarded to 25 Western Australian researchers to boost their chances of success to future funding. The Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund’s WA Near Miss Awards (WANMA) Emerging Leaders program is designed to support WA researchers who narrowly missed out on securing a highly competitive National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator Grant funding. WANMA Emerging Leaders funding is provided through an 18-month grant and/or a 3-year fellowship. Emerging Leaders Grants give recipients the opportunity to enhance areas of their NHMRC application that were identified as being improvable, while the Emerging Leaders Fellowships allow the recipients to do the work proposed in their NHMRC application over 3 years. Recipients were assessed based on merit and receive a share of the $4.8 million funding pool. The 2024-...
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22/05/2025