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Grants

Medical Research Future Fund

Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)

Status

Status not published

Individual grant opportunities are published on GrantConnect with their own closing dates. The MRFF publishes a rolling implementation plan setting out upcoming opportunities.

Open now

Amount

Not published

A A$20 billion endowment funding health and medical research and innovation through targeted competitive grant opportunities. Individual grants range from a few hundred thousand dollars to tens of millions depending on the initiative. Relevant streams for companies include the Biomedical Translation Bridge and BioMedTech Horizons style initiatives, plus targeted translational research missions.

Funder

Department of Health, Disability and Ageing / National Health and Medical Research Council (administering)

public · national

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — Individual grant opportunities are published on GrantConnect with their own closing dates. The MRFF publishes a rolling implementation plan setting out upcoming opportunities.

Your odds

Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort

major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Sectors: health
Stage: idea stage, pre-seed, seed and Series A
R&D activity required
Locally registered entity required

Eligibility varies by grant opportunity. Many streams require an Australian university, medical research institute or hospital as administering institution; some translation and commercialisation streams admit companies directly or as partners.

How to apply

Monitor GrantConnect and the MRFF implementation plan for relevant opportunities.
Identify whether an administering institution (university, MRI or hospital) is required as the lead applicant.
Prepare the application in Sapphire or the relevant grants system.
Peer review and assessment.
Award and execution of the funding agreement.

What you will need

Grant application and research plan
Budget and justification
CVs of chief investigators
Administering institution certification
Ethics approvals or plans
Commercialisation plan for translation-focused streams (if applicable)

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/medical-research-future-fund · not human-checked

"The Medical Research Future Fund is a long-term investment supporting Australian health and medical research."

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.health.gov.au