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NHMRC Funding Calendar

The below table indicates all of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding opportunities available for this year. If you are planning to submit an NHMRC application please lodge it with Swinburne Research by the appropriate internal closing date (indicated below). For more information on any of the schemes please click on the name of the scheme. For NHMRC assistance from Swinburne Research please contact Sandra Mosca on ext. 5225 or email smosca@swin.edu.au.


Funding Scheme Applications Open Internal Close External Applications Close
Human Frontier Science Program - Short Term Fellowships Open (applications can be submitted anytime)
Research Fellowships 8 December 2008 23 January 2009 6 February 2009
Practitioner Fellowships 8 December 2008 23 January 2009 6 February 2009
Australia Fellowships - Expression of Interest 8 December 2008 17 February 2009 3 March 2009
Project Grants 8 December 2009 3 March 2009 17 March 2009
Ministers Medal February 2009 TBA March 2009
Career Development Awards 13 January 2009 17 March 2009 31 March 2009
Australia-EU Collaborative Research Grants March 2009 TBA May 2009
Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships 2 March 2009 17 April 2009 1 May 2009
Australia-China Exchange (Postdoctoral) Fellowship 2 March 2009 17 April 2009 1 May 2009
Development Grants 5 May 2009 23 June 2009 7 July 2009
Program Grants 4 April 2009 15 June 2009 1 July 2009
Australia Fellowship - full application 29 May 2009 26 June 2009 10 July 2009
Postgraduate Scholarships 4 May 2009 17 July 2009 31 July 2009
European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) April 2009 TBA August 2009
Human Frontier Science Program - Long Term and Cross-disciplinary Fellowships June 2009 TBA August 2009
International Collaborative Indigenous Health Research Partnership (ICIHRP) July 2009 TBA October 2009
Australia-EU Collaborative Research Grants October 2009 TBA December 2009
Human Frontier Science Program - Research Grants December 2009 TBA March 2010