Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO5208

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Coronavirus Research Response – 2021 COVID-19 Treatment Access and Public Health Activities Grant Opportunity aims to support Australian medical research and medical innovation projects that:

• Stream 1: evaluate the safety, effectiveness, feasibility and comparative effectiveness of implementing new treatments for COVID-19 in Australian clinical settings.

• Stream 2: accelerate the development of antiviral candidates to prevent or treat SARS-CoV-2.

• Stream 3: characterise the immune response to SARS-CoV-2 variants in children, adolescents, adults and vulnerable populations to improve understanding of how immune responses vary between variants and across cohorts and populations.

• Stream 4: generate knowledge of how SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted through air to inform new and/or improved models of COVID-19 transmission.

• Stream 5: establish a national linked data platform that integrates relevant existing health data sets for the purposes of strengthening evidence-based public health and health system planning and management for future pandemics.

Note: applications for Stream 5 will only be accepted from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Applicants to this grant opportunity must propose research that addresses one of the five Streams of research. An application may be submitted to one of the above five Streams only.

This grant opportunity is being administered by NHMRC on behalf of the Australian Government Department of Health. 

Further information on the Medical Research Future Fund is available from the Department of Health website.

Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC approved MRFF Eligible Organisations. A list of NHMRC approved Eligible Organisations is available from the GrantConnect GO Documents and from the NHMRC’s Eligible Organisations list on the NHMRC website.

For Stream 5, an application will only be accepted from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) CRR – 2021 2021 COVID-19 Treatment Access and Public Health Activities Grant Opportunity guidelines

The maximum project period for all Streams is 5 years.

$33,000,000.00

Applicants are advised to read the Grant Guidelines thoroughly and liaise with the Eligible Organisation that will submit the application to identify any specific requirements that the Institution might have.

Applications must be submitted electronically using NHMRC’s online granting system (Sapphire).

Minimum Data closes at 5:00 pm (ACT Local Time) on 9 February 2022 

Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00 pm (ACT Local Time) on 16 February 2022.