MRFF EPCDRI 2024 Paediatric Brain Cancer Research Grant Opportunity

Overview

The Emerging Priorities and Consumer-Driven Research Initiative (the Initiative) aims to enable or support research that improves patient care and translation of new discoveries and encourage collaboration between consumers and researchers. Funding from this Initiative will support the development of new diagnoses, treatments and cures, and the translation of new discoveries into clinical practice.  The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:  Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research):establish a national childhood brain cancer clinical trial consortium Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): conduct novel pre-clinical and/or early stage clinical research to improve understanding of paediatric brain cancer and/or generate new therapies and treatments for paediatric brain cancer.  This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund is available from the Department of Health and Aged Care website.