The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF), a private charity, supports cancer research in Australia by funding significant grants to stimulate and assist our researchers to achieve major research outcomes and to develop and enhance their international competitiveness. 

The Foundation's approach to supporting cancer research is based on the following principles:

• To support all aspects of cancer control (i.e. prevention, early detection, treatment and/or management) through research.
• To support research by groups and institutes with outstanding credentials and/or potential in cancer research, to facilitate new and sustainable programs and to provide platforms that will add to Australia's cancer research capacity.
• To pool the efforts of teams of researchers within or across institutes can often answer research questions more effectively or more efficiently. The Foundation therefore welcomes joint applications.
• ACRF is a 'seed' funding body, and may not necessarily be able to fund the full amount sought in an application.

Categories

ACRF funds cancer research under the following categories: 

1. Technology 
2. Major equipment 
3. Infrastructure including capital works / virtual capabilities (specifically including cloud-based) 
4. Highly specialised reagents / specialised software packages etc. that are essential for the operation of the equipment or virtual infrastructure. Limited to 25% of total grant. 
5. Salaries of technical experts to operate and optimise use of technologies / equipment. This is limited to $100,000 per annum for first 3 years. (Please also note complementary funding opportunities in Section 9) which should be included separately in application.

Funding

1. Grant Applications for amounts between $1.5m and $5m are sought (average Grant awarded for the past 5 years = $2.2m).

ACRF will not consider applications seeking funding for salaries, research consumables and services, or the costs associated with running clinical trials. 

• Address: Suite 3.02, Level 3 77 King Street SYDNEY 2000 NSW
• Phone: (02) 9223 7833
• Fax: (02) 9223 1800
• Email: criddington@acrf.com.au