Past funding opportunities
The Agency was established in 2006 and has undertaken four rounds of funding to date:
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
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.