Author: Koshala Shanmugakumar

The Department of Health invites Applications for the twelfth round of the Research Translation Projects (RTP) funding program.

The RTP program seeks to support high-quality research projects that have the potential to be translated into policy and/or practice in WA Health, with the aim of investigating improved efficiencies that can be delivered whilst maintaining and/or improving patient outcomes.

The Department of Health’s closing date for Applications is 1:00pm, Monday 18 June 2018.  

 For this round a one-stage application process will apply.

The Guidelines for Applicants and Application Form can be downloaded from the Research Development website at:

http://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/S_T/SHRAC-Research-Translation-Projects

For assistance please contact the Research Development Unit via email to ResearchDevelopment@health.wa.gov.au or Phone (08) 9222 4415.

More information about the range of funding programs administered by the Department of Health through the Research Development Unit can be found at: http://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Corporate/Articles/N_R/Research-funding-programs

An Information flyer is attached and can be distributed for promotion purposes. Please contact the Research Development Unit if you wish to organise an information session.

Flyer  Research Translation Projects 2018 (Round 12) – Open Announcement

Grand Challenges Explorations grant opportunities

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is inviting Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/about proposals for the following three challenges (application deadline is May 2, 2018):

*   Innovations in Immunization Data Management, Use, and Improved Process Efficiency https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-immunization-data-management-use-and-improved-process-efficiency-round-21

*   Affordable, Accessible, and Appealing: The Next Generation of Nutrition https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/affordable-accessible-and-appealing-next-generation-nutrition-round-21  (also see the blog https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2018/03/Looking-for-Bold-New-Partners-to-Join-the-Fight-Against-Malnutrition#.Ws7xoFjrtPb )

*   Tools and Technologies for Broad-Scale Disease Surveillance of Crop Plants in Low-Income Countries https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/tools-and-technologies-broad-scale-disease-surveillance-crop-plants-low-income-countries

GCE grants have already been awarded to more than 1300 researchers in more than 65 countries. Initial grants are for USD $100,000 and successful projects are eligible to receive follow-on funding of up to USD $1 million. Proposals are solicited twice a year for an expanding set of global health and development challenges. Applications are only two pages, and no preliminary data is required. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any type of organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies.

 

Grand Challenges grant opportunities

*   Grand Challenges India: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-india-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial-resistance . Application deadline is May 25, 2018.

*   Grand Challenges Explorations – Brazil: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-brazil-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial-resistance . Application deadline is May 28, 2018.

*   Grand Challenges Africa: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-africa-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial-resistance . Application deadline is May 16, 2018.

*   Grand Challenges South Africa: New Approaches to Characterize the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-south-africa-new-approaches-characterize-global-burden-antimicrobial . Application deadline is May 16, 2018.

*   Grand Challenges: Campylobacter spp. Transmission Dynamics in Low- and Middle-Income Countries https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/campylobacter-spp-transmission-dynamics-low-and-middle-income-countries . Application deadline is May 2, 2018.

*   Grand Challenges Explorations – Brazil: Data Science Approaches to Improve Maternal and Child Health in Brazil https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/grand-challenges-explorations-brazil-data-science-approaches-improve-maternal-and-child . Application deadline is May 2, 2018.

*   Misk Grand Challenges: Activating Global Citizenship: Building the Next Generation of Global Citizens for the Global Goals. https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/activating-global-citizenship-building-next-generation-global-citizens-global-goals Application deadline is May 2, 2018.

*   Misk Grand Challenges: Reinventing Teaching and School Leadership: Preparing the Youth with the 21st Century Skills Needed for a Knowledge Economy. https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/reinventing-teaching-and-school-leadership-preparing-youth-21st-century-skills-needed  Application deadline is May 2, 2018.

 

Additional global funder grant opportunities

*   The African Academy of Sciences (AAS), the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are partnering under the auspices of the Coalition of African Research & Innovation (CARI) to establish a post-doctoral training fellowship program, the African Postdoctoral Training Initiative (APTI)<http://www.aasciences.ac.ke/aesa/en/programmes/the-african-postdoctoral-training-initiative-/>. Training will be at the intramural laboratories of NIH. Application deadline is May 11, 2018.

*   The Templeton World Charity Foundation announces Round 1 of its new Global Innovations for Character Development<https://www.globalcharacter.org/> initiative. Application deadline is June 15, 2018.

 

Blog series on innovation: Trevor Mundel, the Gates Foundation’s President of Global Health, recently published three new blogs in his series https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/news?f%5B0%5D=type%3Aexternal_article&f%5B1%5D=field_blog_series%3A41 on innovation: one on metabolic markers for gestational age assessment https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2017/12/INNOVATION-HOW-A-50YEAROLD-DROP-OF-BLOOD-HELPS-SOLVE-AN-URGENT-GLOBAL-HEALTH-CHALLENGE#.WqBINW1uZPZ , one on surveying nutrient levels in breastmilk https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2018/03/Understanding-Global-Differences-in-Human-Milk-Nutrients#.WqBIdW1uZPZ , and one on new technology to assess intestinal health in babies  https://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2018/02/Innovation-A-New-Lens-on-Child-Nutrition#.Wr6dyVjrtPa .

 

We look forward to receiving innovative ideas from around the world on the open grant opportunities listed above. If you have a great idea, please apply. If you know someone else who has a great idea, please forward this message. And we invite you to explore an interactive world map of ideas funded<https://grandchallenges.org/#/map> to date across the global Grand Challenges network.

 

Thank you for your commitment to solving the world’s greatest health and development challenges.

 

The Grand Challenges Team

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The 7th NHMRC Symposium on Research Translation will be held in Sydney on 27—28 November 2018. A call for abstracts is now open https://icmsaust.eventsair.com/nhmrc-2018/call-for-abstracts.

The theme this year is ‘Ensuring value in research’ with a particular focus on:

*   justifiable research priorities

*   robust research design, conduct and analysis

*   regulation and management of research conduct proportionate to risks

*   accessible research methods and findings and complete and usable research reports.

We encourage you to consider submitting an abstract, particularly in relation to the work of your Centres. Submissions close 11 May 2018.

Any enquiries, please contact: abstracts@nhmrc2018.com.au

 

Please see below a flyer and a note on the application process

Forrest Research Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship flyer

Forrest Fellowship application details

Do you have a clinical, business, research or engineering background and a passion for solving unmet medical needs?  

We are seeking the next generation of biomedical entrepreneurs to join us on a journey of innovation in the 2018 Perth Biodesign course (run previously as SPARK Co-Lab Design). Based on Biodesign methodology at Stanford University, Perth Biodesign brings together people with a passion for design thinking and discovery in medicine.

Participants will form multidisciplinary teams, and over a 6 month period (11^th June – 5^th November), innovate and create their own novel solutions for unmet medical needs. The course is suited to clinicians, scientists, engineers and business professionals, from student, early career through to professional level.

 Find out more information by going to www.biodesignaustralia.com.

 APPLICATIONS CLOSE THIS SUNDAY 8^th APRIL

 So if you’re interested in applying please send an email to perth@biodesignaustralia.com ASAP to receive an application pack for submission.

 Perth Biodesign Flyer

 

One of WAHTN’s major successes over the course of the last year was to be awarded NHMRC accreditation as an Advanced Health Research and Translation Centre (AHRTC). This formal recognition places Western Australia amongst the world’s top centres performing translational research to directly improve patient care. WAHTN has now joined the other 6 accredited AHRTC’s and the 2 accredited CIRH’s to form the Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA), with opportunity for linking partners and facilitating collaboration across the country in key areas, such as in clinical trials.

We take this opportunity to thank the outgoing Executive Director Professor John Challis for his valuable contribution to WAHTN and welcoming the new Executive Director Professor Gary Geelhoed from the 3rd of April 2018.

WAHTN are pleased to present the below Activity Report that summarises the substantial progress made by WAHTN during 2017.

WA Health Translation Network Activity Report January 2018

A new agreement signed in January 2018 gives researchers from five WA universities and CSIRO equal access to equipment and research facilities in centres at The University of Western Australia (UWA), Curtin University and CSIRO.

Under the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between UWA, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University, The University of Notre Dame and CSIRO, researchers (staff, students, adjuncts and clinical appointments) can access microscopy, characterisation imaging and analysis facilities in UWA’s Centre for Microscopy Characterisation and Analysis (CMCA), facilities at the John de Laeter Centre (JdLC) at Curtin University and CSIRO. Under this MOU, all university-based researchers will receive equivalent subsidies of the cost from their host institution.

The MOU will foster increased collaboration between WA’s leading research institutions by removing barriers to research infrastructure for researchers.

Please visit the following websites/contacts for information on accessing these facilities and options for access and subscription rates:

CMCA @ UWA
Facilities: http://www.cmca.uwa.edu.au/facilities
Registration: http://www.cmca.uwa.edu.au/access/user-registration
Rates: http://www.cmca.uwa.edu.au/access/rates2
Contact: http://www.cmca.uwa.edu.au/contact

JdLC @ Curtin University
Facilities: http://jdlc.edu.au/facilities/
Rates: http://jdlc.edu.au/rates/ 
Contact: http://jdlc.edu.au/contact/

CSIRO @ Kensington WA
Facilities, Rates and Contact: Louise.Fisher@csiro.au

Cancer Council WA, in partnership with Government of Western Australia, Western Australian Health Translation Network, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, The University of Western Australia and Telethon Kids Institute, are seeking EOI applications for the Collaborative Cancer Grant Scheme. A total of $321,309 is available in this grant round.

Expressions of Intent are being sought, for cancer research projects to commence in 2019;  funding support of $25,000 – $50,000 will be awarded for each project to encourage collaboration among early to mid-career researchers (E-MCRs).

Two unique features of these grants are: each application is required to have at least one chief investigator from a minimum of three West Australian Research Institutions; and all chief investigators must be E-MCRs.

For EOI details and guidance please visit the Cancer Council WA website: https://www.cancerwa.asn.au/research/funding/collaborative_cancer_grant_scheme/. Shortlisted applicants will move to the full application stage which opens in May.

Cancer Council Closing date: 4pm Monday 19 March 2018

Please submit the following documents by the internal closing date, Monday 05 March 2018:

• One fully completed UWA Grant Application Cover Sheet (pages 1-2): http://www.research.uwa.edu.au/staff/rgco/forms#acdn-2 .
• One electronic version of the application to sina.mesiti@uwa.edu.au

The Department of Health is inviting applications for New Independent Researcher Infrastructure Support (NIRIS) Awards.

The purpose of these Awards is to recognise outstanding new independent health and medical researchers and provide funding to help them meet the infrastructure costs associated with their research programs.  This supports them in their research activities in WA and assists them to develop their independent careers.

NIRIS Awards of up to $15,000 each are available and will be awarded on competitive merit.

These awards are for infrastructure costs associated with research programs for a period of 12 months commencing in the 2018 calendar year.

Applicants must meet eligibility criteria that are set out in the Guidelines and Conditions document.

The application period closes at 1.00pm on Monday 19 March 2018.

For the Guidelines and Conditions and Application Form, visit the Department of Health, Research Development Unit website http://ww2.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/N_R/New-Independent-Researcher-Infrastructure-Support-Awards

For more information contact the Research Development Unit via email CMOResearchDevelopment@health.wa.gov.au or phone 9222 2069.

The Raine Medical Research Foundation provides Priming Grants for health and medical research scientists and clinicians at an early stage in their career, to assist them to become more competitive for national and international peer-review grants. This program is intended particularly for those who are progressing towards an independent research career.

Key dates:
Call for Applications – 8 February 2018
Applications Close – 22 March 2018 at 1.00 pm
Successful Grants Announced – December 2018

The Raine Medical Research Foundation will award a number of two-year Priming Grants and “grants-in-aid” for 2019-2020. These Grants provide funding for research into any area of health and medical science that investigates the nature, origin and cause of human disease, and the prevention, cure, alleviation and combating of such disease.

Ranking of applications is based on scientific excellence. If a successful application is in the area of child health research or mental illness, support funding by the BrightSpark Foundation or the Cockell Bequest, respectively, may be considered.

Successful applicants must be employed by a Western Australian University or affiliated institution in Western Australia.

Grants may include funding (or part funding) for salaries of researchers and/or technical staff, small equipment, and consumables, and shall not normally exceed $200,000 total.

Please click here for Guidelines and Conditions and the online application form.