Current funding opportunities
The Victorian Cancer Agency's Translational Cancer Research Funding Round has now progressed to its second stage.
The Agency received 81 Expressions of Interest totalling over $86 million across all tumour streams, and 28 applicants have been asked to submit a full application.
Evaluation Panels will be assessing the applications in June 2009, and the Agency expects to release the results by the end of July 2009.
In the Expressions of Interest round, the Agency was seeking proposals for projects that have significant potential for clinical translation in the following categories:
- Tumour stream specific proposals that target one of the 10 tumour streams (excluding the breast tumour stream*)
- Multiple and cross tumour stream research
- Translational research proposals into rare cancers
- Clinician-sponsored research that addresses identified patient clinical need.
*Breast cancer is excluded from this EOI as translational breast cancer research is funded separately by the Victorian Cancer Agency through the Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium until 2012.
Funding will be available for a broad range of proposals - from smaller, more localised and short-term grants of up to $1 million over a two year duration, through to large scale, multi-site and long-term grants up to $5 million over a four year duration.
Read the guidelines for the Translational Cancer Research Expression of Interest [PDF].
For more information on the funding opportunities that have previously been available from the Agency, see Past funding opportunities. To find out who has been funded by the Agency, see Funding recipients.