Archived Grant Opportunity View - GO942

Career Development Fellowships (CDFs) are highly competitive, four year Fellowships that recognise and provide support for the most outstanding early to mid-career health and medical researchers in each Fellowship category. CDFs can be applied for at one of two levels depending on the applicant’s career stage – CDF Level 1 or CDF Level 2.

The specific objectives of the CDF scheme are to:

• develop Australian health and medical early to mid-career researchers so they establish themselves as independent, self-directed researchers
• help build Australia’s capacity for research in any field of health and medical research, with a particular emphasis on clinical, population health research, biomedical and bioinformatics fields
• increase knowledge and support the development of evidence based health policies
• encourage the translation of research outcomes into practice
• encourage the growth of knowledge-based industries in Australia by helping to bridge the gap between research and industry and fostering an environment that values industry achievement
• provide a means for Australian researchers working overseas to return to Australia to continue their career development.

Applications will only be accepted from NHMRC approved Administering Institutions. A list of NHMRC approved Administering Institutions is available at: 

https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/grants-funding-administering-grants.

Applications must satisfy all the requirements set out in the 2018 NHMRC Funding Rules and the additional requirements set out in the 2018 Career Development Fellowships Scheme-Specific Funding Rules for funding commencing in 2019.

Applications must be submitted electronically using NHMRC’s online Research Grants Management System (RGMS) unless otherwise advised by NHMRC.