NHMRC Investigator Grants

Investigator Grants provide the highest-performing researchers at all career stages with consolidated funding for their salary (if required) and a significant research support package.

In this way, the Chief Investigator has flexibility to pursue important new research directions as they arise, adjust their resources accordingly, and to form collaborations as needed, rather than being restricted to the scope of a specific research project.

Investigator Grants support:

• Research across the 4 pillars of health and medical research: biomedical, clinical, public health and health services research.
• All career stages: early career researchers, mid-career researchers and established researchers
• Researchers with clinical responsibilities (such as clinicians, public health and allied health practitioners)
• Full-time and part-time researchers.

Investigator Grants aim to:

• Allow flexibility for investigators to pursue important new research directions as they arise and to form collaborations as needed
• Foster innovative and creative research
• Create opportunities for researchers at all career stages to establish their own research programs
• Reduce application and peer review burden on researchers.