NHMRC Grant Outcomes Announced

Prime Minister, the Hon Tony Abbott MP and the Minister for Health, the Hon Peter Dutton MP, have announced NHMRC grant funding totalling $580.2 million.
Funding for 848 new grants included  555  Project Grants ($421.1 million), 8 Partnership Projects ($7.3 million), 19 Centres of Research Excellence ($47.3 million), 125 Early Career Fellowships ($39.4 million), 58 Career Development Fellowships ($24.1 million), 10 Translating Research into Practice Fellowships ($1.7 million), 47 Equipment grants ($6 million) and 26 Independent Medical Research Institutions Infrastructure grants ($32.7 million).
The MRFF Action Group, however, has criticised the announcement, citing the latest round of funding announcement has resulted in just 14.9 per cent of applications being funded.
MRFF Action Group Chairman, Mr Peter Scott, said this NHMRC grant announcement highlighted the absolute need for the MRFF to go ahead at its full proposed capitalisation of $20 billion by 2022.
“This NHMRC grant announcement highlights the absolute need for the MRFF to go ahead at its full proposed capitalisation of $20 billion by 2022, which is expected to deliver $1 billion a year in additional health and medical research funding by 2022,” said Mr Scott, also Chairman of the Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute and Vice Chairman of UBS Investment Banking.
“That may sound like a lot of money, but it will only just bring Australia in line with the OECD average for funding of medical research. Currently Australia invests just 64 per cent of the OECD average in health and medical research as a percentage of GDP.”
For the NHMRC grant outcomes, click here