Past funding opportunities
2011
Funded categories:
- Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer Research
- Early Career Seed Grant
- Palliative and Supportive Care Scholarship
- Palliative and Supportive Care Capacity Building Grant
Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer Research
The Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer Research are a joint initiative between the Victorian Cancer Agency and the Richard Pr
att Fellowships in Prostate Cancer Foundation.
The objectives of the Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer Research are to:
- Support high quality prostate cancer research conducted by early career researchers who are able to demonstrate clear evidence of translation
al research capacity
- Provide limited seed funding to encourage and retain talented individuals in the field of prostate cancer research in Victoria.
The Richard Pratt Fellowships in Prostate Cancer Research are available to:
- Support the salary of the researcher
- Support the direct research costs of undertaking the research project
- Facilitate collaboration related to the research project
Early Career Seed Grant
Victorian Cancer Agency Early Career Seed Grants are designed to support early career researchers undertaking high quality translational cancer research. The grants provide seed funding to encourage and retain talented individuals in the field of cancer research in Victoria.
The objectives of the Early Career Seed Grants are to:
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Support high quality cancer research conducted by early career researchers who are able to demonstrate clear evidence of translational research capacity
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Provide limited seed funding as a means of enhancing competitiveness of early career researchers to enable leverage of further funding from granting bodies or industry
One of the priority areas for the Victorian Cancer Agency is building cancer research capacity and capability in the field of supportive care, palliative care and survivorship in cancer. To address this priority, the Agency is offering Palliative and Supportive Care Research Scholarships.
Palliative and Supportive Care Scholarships are aimed at increasing the number of researchers that are able to conduct high quality research into palliative care, supportive care and survivorship.
Palliative and Supportive Care Capacity Building Grant
Palliative and Supportive Care Capacity Building Grants are aimed at providing one-off seed funding for infrastructure that will support cancer research. This may include:
2010
The Agency offered targeted support for health services to increase the recruitment of patients onto cancer clinical trials. Funding provided by the Victorian Cancer Agency for these grants must be used to support cancer related investigator-initiated trials.
Organisations involved in conducting clinical trials were invited to apply for salary support for staff associated with conducting clinical trials. Requests for funding beyond salary support were required to make a strong argument that the funding would substantially increase the number of patient recruited to investigator-initiated clinical trials.
Applications were required to be made on behalf of the organisation seeking support and not the individual researcher or clinical trial group. Organisations the Agency anticipated applications from included:
- Rural, regional and metropolitan hospitals and health services
- Victorian Universities
- Cancer Services
- Any other agency conducting clinical trials (please enquire before submitting your application).
2009
The Translational Cancer Research funding round called for proposals of up to $5 million over four years in the areas of tumour stream specific, cross tumour stream, rare cancers and clinician-sponsored research that addressed patient need.
The 2008-09 funding opportunities included the:
Workforce development initiatives
- Clinical research fellowship
- Early career seed grant
- Link & learn grant
- Supportive care scholarship and clinical research fellowship
Capacity building initiatives
- Supportive care capacity building grant
- Regional research capacity building grant
- Clinical trials pilot study grant and capacity building grant
- Platform technology capacity building grant
Consumer initiative
2007-08
The 2007-08 funding opportunities included the:
- Clinical trials and tumour stream research program
- Supportive care in cancer research program
- Regional cancer research enabling program
- Early career seed grants
- Link and learn grants
- Platform technology capacity building grants
Also offered in 2007-08 were the Early Career Bench & Bedside Grants and Awards from the Early Career Innovators Network.
The 2006-08 funding opportunities included:
- Clinician-researcher fellowships
- Supportive care research scholarships
- Seed funding for regional areas
To see a full list of funding recipients, download a copy of the booklet [PDF] from our Awards Presentation Evening held in February 2008.