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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: MRFF 2025 Research Data Infrastructure Grant Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support Australian medical research and medical innovation projects that use novel methods to harness multiple existing data infrastructure types in developing and implementing new approaches for addressing an unmet medical need. \nResearch proposals should incorporate: \n\nnew linkage and/or use of data from multiple (at least two) existing research data infrastructure sources of different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data\, registry and biobank data\, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and/or\nnovel methodologies and approaches that leverage and enhance existing linked research data infrastructure of at least two different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data\, registry and biobank data\, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and\na clear outline of how the proposed project will produce knowledge and outcomes that address an area of unmet medical need.
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/deadline-mrff-2025-research-data-infrastructure-grant-opportunity/
LOCATION:Apply online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:DEADLINE: Funding
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20251105T140000
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SUMMARY:FHRI Fund November 2025 Open Day
DESCRIPTION:The next Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund Open Day will be held on Wednesday 5 November 2025 at Dexus Place (Perth CBD)\, and ONLINE. \nThis event marks an important milestone with the official launch of the FHRI Fund Spotlight program\, a new initiative designed to highlight priority health challenges and connect researchers\, innovators\, community and government to drive impact. \nThe inaugural Spotlight theme is Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) – a serious but preventable condition that disproportionately affects Aboriginal people and communities across WA. By placing RHD in the spotlight\, the FHRI Fund seeks to strengthen collaboration\, partnerships\, research and innovation to reduce its devastating health impacts. \nThe Open Day is also an opportunity for the WA health and medical research and innovation community to hear about the suite of FHRI Fund opportunities that are aligned to the new FHRI Fund Strategy 2025-30. Several FHRI Fund Programs and Initiatives (P&Is) will be launched and the sector will also be provided the forward view of P&I openings across FY25/26 and FY26/27. \nThe event will be hosted by the Department of Health’s Office of Medical Research and Innovation (OMRI) and will feature presentations from: \n\nThe Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC\, Minister for Medical Research\nHealth workers\, researchers and innovators making a difference in RHD
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/fhri-fund-november-2025-open-day/
LOCATION:Dexus Place\, Level 16/240 St Georges Terrace\, Perth\, WA\, 6000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Information Session / Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20240327T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20240327T120000
DTSTAMP:20260521T072326
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SUMMARY:MRFF Research Administration Officer Webinar
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join our next MRFF Research Administration Officer (RAO) Webinar at 2:00pm AEDT on 27 March 2024. \nMRFF RAO Webinars support RAOs and organisations administering or interested in applying for MRFF grants by covering topics and questions important to participants. \nYou can help inform the content of this webinar by completing our online survey by 5:00pm AEDT\, 7 March 2024. \nWe will share final details on webinar topics closer to the date in this newsletter. \nWe will also publish a recording of the webinar on our website.
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/mrff-research-administration-officer-webinar/
LOCATION:online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Information Session / Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20240314T080000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20240314T093000
DTSTAMP:20260521T072326
CREATED:20240229T025849Z
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SUMMARY:Webinar: How to improve the health of rural\, regional and remote communities with an MRFF grant
DESCRIPTION:Join our next MRFF Webinar at 11:00am AEDT on 14 March 2024 for a practical workshop on how health practitioners\, researchers and health services can use research to address health needs in rural\, regional and remote communities. This includes building research capability and sustainability\, mechanisms and strategies for engaging in research and the MRFF support available for this research. \nOur panel will talk about their experiences and provide personal insights. An opportunity to ask questions will follow. \n 
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/webinar-how-to-improve-the-health-of-rural-regional-and-remote-communities-with-an-mrff-grant/
LOCATION:online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Information Session / Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20240308T090000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20240308T140000
DTSTAMP:20260521T072326
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SUMMARY:FHRI Fund March 2024 Open Day
DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THIS EVENT\nThe next WA Government’s Future Health Research and Innovation (FHRI) Fund Open Day will be held on Friday 8 March 2024 at the Red Earth Arts Precinct in Karratha. \nThe event will provide an opportunity for attendees to hear about exciting WA health and medical research and innovation developments\, and gain information about FHRI Fund programs open for applications\, as well as recently awarded FHRI Fund grant recipients. \nAligned with International Women’s Day on 8 March 2024\, the Karratha Open Day will have a theme of ‘Women’s and children’s health’ with an emphasis on research and innovation in partnership with Aboriginal communities in the Pilbara. \nFor those attending in person\, the March Open Day will also offer the unique opportunity to engage in interactive demonstrations by select finalists from The Challenge\, who are pioneering ground-breaking solutions to improve health care delivery in the Pilbara. \nHosted by the WA Department of Health’s Office of Medical Research and Innovation (OMRI) in collaboration with the WA Centre for Rural Health (WACRH) and the Pilbara Aboriginal Health Alliance (PAHA)\, this event will feature addresses from distinguished speakers including FHRI Fund Advisory Council Members and other prominent speakers from the Pilbara and the WA health and medical research and innovation community. \nFor those unable to attend\, a recording will be made available on the FHRI Fund website following the Open Day. \nAttendance may be in-person or online as per details below.  Further event related notifications including the online link will be sent closer to the date.  \nIn-person attendance: \n\nRegistrations/networking/The Challenge finalist demonstrations: 9:00am-10:00am \nSpeeches and presentations: 10:00am-1:00pm\nLight lunch/networking/The Challenge finalist demonstrations: 1:00pm-2:00pm \n\nOnline attendance:  \n\nSpeeches and presentations: 10:00am-1:00pm\n\nImportant information \nPhotography: This event will be photographed and videoed and images will occasionally be used for promotional and marketing purposes\, including social media. If you do not wish to be photographed or videoed\, please notify event staff at event registration. \nAssistance: If you have any special requirements to enable you to participate at this event please advise when you register. \n\nDATE\nFriday 8 March 2024\n\nLOCATION\n Get directions\n\n\nRed Earth Arts Precinct\n27 Welcome Road \, Karratha WA 6714 \n\n\n  \nCONTACT EVENT ORGANISER\n 
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/fhri-fund-march-2024-open-day/
LOCATION:Red Earth Arts Precinct\, 27 Welcome Road\, Karratha\, Western Australia\, 6714\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Showcase / Pitch / Demo / Tour
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20231208T080000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20231208T090000
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SUMMARY:DEADLINE: MRFF 2023 Research Data Infrastructure Grant Opportunity
DESCRIPTION:Funding medical researchers to analyse and share existing data infrastructure in new ways\n\nFunding for researchers to support projects using existing data infrastructure types to create or apply new approaches for an unmet medical need.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat do you get?\nGrants of up to $2.5 million for projects that support researchers to improve on existing research data infrastructure platforms and achieve better health care outcomes. \nWho is this for?\nEligible organisations seeking to develop better data health intelligence to improve health care delivery. \n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\nThis grant opportunity is part of the Medical Research Future Fund and the Research Data Infrastructure Initiative. It looks to support the creation or extension of national research data infrastructure to support world-class health and medical research in Australia. \nResearch proposals should incorporate: \n\nnew linkage and/or use of data from multiple (at least two) existing research data infrastructure sources of different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data\, registry and biobank data\, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and/or\nnovel methodologies and approaches that leverage and enhance existing linked research data infrastructure of at least two different types (e.g. administrative and biobank data\, registry and biobank data\, wearables and use artificial intelligence); and\na clear outcome of how the proposed project will produce knowledge and outcomes that address an area of unmet medical need.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCheck if you can apply\n\nYou can apply if you meet the eligibility criteria. The eligibility criteria are a set of rules that describe who we can consider for this grant. You can apply if you: \n\nare an eligible entity\nhave an eligible project\nhave eligible expenditure.\n\nThe rules are in the grant opportunity guidelines
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/deadline-mrff-2023-research-data-infrastructure-grant-opportunity/
LOCATION:Apply online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:DEADLINE: Funding
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20230703T143000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20230703T160000
DTSTAMP:20260521T072326
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SUMMARY:Improving alignment and coordination between the Medical Research Future Fund and Medical Research Endowment Account
DESCRIPTION:About the webinar\n\n\n\n\nMinister for Health and Aged Care\, the Hon Mark Butler MP\, and Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Care\, the Hon Ged Kearney MP\, are leading a national consultation focused on optimising the government’s funding arrangements for health and medical research. \n\nYou are invited to a webinar on 3 July 2023 to learn more about this consultation and how to provide your views on options to improve alignment and coordination between the Medical Research Future Fund and Medical Research Endowment Account. \nYou will be able to participate in a ‘questions and answers’ session following a presentation on the context for this consultation. In preparation for the webinar\, you may wish to read the Ministers’ Discussion Paper\, available at the Department of Health and Aged Care’s consultation hub. \n\n\n\n\n\nLogin commences 30 minutes prior to the start time \n\n\n\n\n\nWhen?\nMonday 3 July 2023 \n\n\n\n\nWhat time?\n2:30 pm – 4:00 pm AEST \n\n\n\n\nWhere?\nONLINE \n\n  \nProfessor Anne Kelso AO \n\n\n\nChief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)\n \nFollowing her PhD at the University of Melbourne\, Professor Kelso undertook research in immunology at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research\, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. From 2000 until 2006\, she was also Director/CEO of the Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology. She then returned to Melbourne as Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza from 2007 until she took up her role with NHMRC in April 2015. She was appointed Officer in the Order of Australia in June 2007 for service to science. \n\n\nProfessor Kelso is a member of several government and international committees\, including the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (advising the Minister for Health and Aged Care on the strategy and priorities for the Medical Research Future Fund)\, the Board of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases and the Board of Trustees of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization. \nMr Blair Exell \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeputy Secretary for Health Strategy\, First Nations Health and Sport in the Department of Health and Aged Care  \n\n\nMr Exell has been a senior leader in foreign affairs\, indigenous and development agendas in Australia and across the Asia Pacific region for almost 30 years. \nPrior to his role in the department\, Mr Exell was the Deputy CEO of the National Indigenous Australians Agency responsible for operations and delivery. This followed 25 years in the foreign affairs and international development arena working across the Asia-Pacific region. He began his career in non-government organisations in Cambodia and Vietnam and later moved across to the Australian Public Service where Mr Exell has now held senior roles for AusAID\, DFAT\, PMC\, NIAA and DOHAC. \nMr Exell was Australia’s most senior aid representative while posted to Cambodia\, Solomon Islands and Indonesia. He was the inaugural Australian Ambassador for Regional Health Security (2017-2018) and served as Australia’s Board member to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (2017-2018).
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/improving-alignment-and-coordination-between-the-medical-research-future-fund-and-medical-research-endowment-account/
LOCATION:online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Seminar / Panel Discussion / Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Perth:20220909T120000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Perth:20220909T130000
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SUMMARY:WA BMTH Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate some of WA’s outstanding medtech organisations at the WA BMTH showcase \nCelebrate some of WA’s outstanding medtech organisations at the WA BMTH showcase\, featuring an opening address by the Hon. Stephen Dawson MLC\, WA’s Minister for Innovation\, ICT and Medical Research. \nDelivered by MTPConnect\, the Australian Government’s $45 million BioMedTech Horizons program (BMTH)\, is a Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) initiative to support innovative collaborative health technologies\, drive discoveries towards proof-of-concept and commercialisation that address key health challenges as well as maximise entrepreneurship and idea potential. \nAcross four funding rounds\, the BMTH program has funded 49 projects. Investments are focused on supporting proof-of-concept to commercial development of biomedical and medical technologies. \nThe WA BMTH Showcase is an opportunity to hear from WA-based companies awarded BMTH funding to develop and commercialise their medtech innovations – about their commercialisation journey and future plans. \n 
URL:https://wainnovationcalendar.com.au/event/wa-bmth-showcase/
LOCATION:Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research\, 6 Verdun Street\, Nedlands\, WA\, 6000\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Showcase / Pitch / Demo / Tour
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