Funding Opportunities

2024 Applications Now Open

The SCP Seed Grant scheme is open to SCP member Early and Mid-Career Cancer Researchers (E/MCRs) employed at Sydney Health Partner member institutions.

The goal is to support E/MCRs to conduct a semi-independent project, that will assist their career development and applications for future funding.

SCP Seed Grants are valued at up to $20K over 12 months, with an additional amount of up to $30K available for access to research core facilities, services or equipment.

For full details including eligibility requirements and to apply, download the SCP Seed Grant 2024 Guidelines and Application form below.

Key Dates

• Applications Open. 30 August 2024
• Applications Close. 5 pm, 11 October 2024
• Notification of Outcomes. by 20 November 2024

2024 Applications Closed

The Research Fellowships are highly prestigious and competitive awards for researchers to build on their research capability and become leaders of their own research team.

There are two levels of Fellowships offered by the Cancer Institute NSW:

• Early Career Fellowships – aimed at encouraging early career researchers (1–5 years post PhD completion) to build on their research capability and become leaders of their own research team.
• Career Development Fellowships – aimed at mid-career researchers (5–10 years post PhD completion) who demonstrate the potential to undertake research that will have major significance to cancer outcomes.

Objectives

The Fellowship Grants aim to:

• Support the career advancement of early and mid-career researchers through the development of research and leadership skills
• Encourage team-based research and collaborations
• Support innovative and/or novel approaches to cancer research that will achieve significant outcomes and demonstrate valuable findings.

Applications close 1.00pm, Wednesday 31 July

2024 Applications Closed

The purpose of this grant is to support evidence-based projects that are focused on benefitting at least one community identified as a ‘focus population’ in the NSW Cancer Plan, have the potential to be embedded and scaled up in the health system, and are sustainable past the funding period.

The Accelerated Research Implementation Grants aim to support high achieving research teams who have the ability and capacity to:

• Rapidly implement current research into clinical practice that will improve cancer care or cancer outcomes within three years
• Demonstrate a logical pipeline of research implementation across the three years of funding
• Demonstrate a scalability plan to roll out initiatives to multiple sites within NSW
• Demonstrate a sustainability plan to ensure continued application of the research implementation past the funding period
• Demonstrate an evaluation approach that includes both process measures and outcome measures
• Assemble a team with the relevant skills and a track record of working together for the entire program which will, by definition, be multi-disciplinary and multi-institutional. This will need to include clinical partners that span metropolitan and non-metropolitan health care settings.

Applications close 1.00pm, Wednesday 14 August

• NSW Cancer Conference 2022 Registration Support is open to SCP members who are HDR students at, or ECR employees of a SHP affiliated institution.
• Applicants must have submitted an abstract via the conference web site by the closing date.
• Applications for Registration Support must be received by 5pm, Friday June 9, 2023.

Applications closed

Supporting PhD candidates whose research aligns with Sydney Cancer Partners key objectives across a wide spectrum of cancer research. Scholarships are valued at the University of Sydney Research Training Program (RTP) stipend rate, tenable for a maximum of 3.5 years.