The MRFF, established under the Medical Research Future Fund Act 2015 (MRFF Act), provides grants of financial assistance to support health and medical research and innovation to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians.

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) 2025 Early to Mid-Career Researchers Grant Opportunity will support medical research and medical innovation projects that:

• Stream 1 (Incubator): Conduct early stage, small scale research, led by early career researchers, that seeks to assess the potential and feasibility of novel strategies to address a critical or intractable health issue in one or more Priority Populations.
• Stream 2 (Accelerator): establish a large-scale interdisciplinary research program, led by mid-career researchers, that drives implementation of substantial improvements to health care and/or health system effectiveness for one or more Priority Populations.
• Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): utilise co-funding to accelerate the translation of research led by early to mid-career researchers into policy and practice.

The anticipated outcome of the research is to improve the health and wellbeing of Australians by:

• Stream 1 (Incubator): supporting early career researchers to develop innovative solutions for addressing significant health challenges in Priority Populations.
• Stream 2 (Accelerator): supporting mid-career researchers to transform health practice and/or policy for Priority Populations.
• Stream 3 (Targeted Call for Research): supporting early to mid-career researchers to translate new health solutions into practice.

Please note: Minimum Data closes at 5:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 25 June 2025. Questions should be submitted no later than 1:00pm (ACT Local Time) on 16 July 2025.

To be eligible your organisation must be an MRFF Eligible Organisation approved by NHMRC. Information on becoming an MRFF Eligible Organisation can be found on the NHMRC website, please see guidelines for further details.

Applicants should note that an application may be submitted to one of the three Streams only.

• Phone: 1800 500 983
• Email: help@nhmrc.gov.au