Tag: Life Sciences

Golden Ticket 2026 aims to enhance the health and medical innovation knowledge, skills and experience of high-potential WA innovators, by providing access to financial support to cover salary costs, development opportunities, and professional services (e.g. Intellectual Property (IP), regulatory affairs, reimbursement expertise) so they can validate early ideas and develop their personal capability to lead the development of innovative ventures that will benefit the WA community.

Funding will be provided on a competitive basis to selected innovators, ensuring a comprehensive package of financial and capacity-building support.

Golden Ticket 2026 is open to WA-based innovators undertaking activities at Innovation Maturity Level (IML) 2 (Idea) to IML 4 (Proof of Feasibility or Hit discovery).

Successful innovators will be awarded funding of up to $300,000, with up to $175,000 available to cover salary costs for an equivalent of 12-months full-time dedicated to the Activity, over a maximum period of 18-months and minimum 0.6FTE.

Program Status: Open for Applications

Applications Close: 1.00pm (AWST), Thursday 16 July 2026

The Fellowships Part A – Research Fellows 2026 program aims to attract and develop outstanding health and medical researchers across all career stages, making the WA research workforce more competitive at national and international levels.

For further details about the program, visit the Research Fellows page.

Applications Close: 1:00pm (AWST) Thursday 13 August 2026

The Fellowships Part B – Distinguished Fellows 2025-26 program aims to attract outstanding research leaders to Western Australia, to undertake a program of research that builds WA’s reputation and capability for WA-led globally recognised research

For further details about the program, visit the Distinguished Fellows page.

Applications Close: Applicants may apply at any time

The Fellowships Part C – Visiting Fellows 2026 program aims to attract talented interstate and international health and medical research and innovation experts to visit WA and maximise collaborative opportunities.

For further details about the program, visit the Visiting Fellows page.

Applications Close: Applicants may apply at any time

The Research Fellows 2026 program is Part A of the FHRI Fund Fellowships program. It aims to attract and develop outstanding health and medical researchers across all career stages, making the WA research workforce more competitive at national and international levels.

Fellowships up to $1.8 million will be awarded to top-ranked applications to support salary and research costs for up to 4 years.

In 2026, these prestigious fellowships will be offered across 4 streams:

• Aboriginal Health Researcher Fellows – for early, mid, and senior-career researchers who identify as Aboriginal, to co-design and lead research with Aboriginal communities
• Clinician Researcher Fellows – for medical practitioners, nurses, midwives, dentists and allied health professionals and other registered clinicians to conduct impactful research that improves health outcomes.
• Emerging Researcher Fellows – for early and mid-career researchers to lead impactful and collaborative research.
• FHRI Fund-Heart Foundation Fellows – for early and mid-career cardiovascular researchers. Proudly delivered in partnership with the National Heart Foundation of Australia.

Funding will be awarded through a competitive and merit-based process including assessment by an independent review panel.

Program Status: Opening 18 June 2026

Applications Close: 1:00pm (AWST) Thursday 13 August 2026

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Early to Mid-Career Researchers (EMCR) Initiative aims to build and grow research capacity and capability in Australia by supporting EMCRs to continue their health and medical research careers.

The objective of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:

– Stream 1 (Incubator): conduct early stage, small scale research, led by early career researchers, that seeks to assess the potential and feasibility of novel strategies to address a critical or intractable health issue in one or more Priority Populations.

– Stream 2 (Accelerator): establish a large-scale interdisciplinary research program, led by mid-career researchers, that drives implementation of substantial improvements to health care and/or health system effectiveness for one or more Priority Populations.

– Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): utilise co-funding to accelerate the translation of research led by early or mid-career researchers into policy and practice. (Note: a priority population focus is not required).

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

Investigator Grants provide the highest-performing researchers at all career stages with consolidated funding for their salary (if required) and a significant research support package.

Investigator Grants support:

• research across the 4 pillars of health and medical research:
  • biomedical
  • clinical
  • public health
  • health services research
• all career stages:
  • early career researchers
  • mid-career researchers
  • established researchers
• researchers with clinical responsibilities (such as clinicians, public health and allied health practitioners)
• full-time and part-time researchers.

Investigator Grants aim to:

• allow flexibility for investigators to pursue important new research directions as they arise and to form collaborations as needed
• foster innovative and creative research
• create opportunities for researchers at all career stages to establish their own research programs
• reduce application and peer review burden on researchers.