Spinal Cord Injury and Related Neurological Conditions Research Grant Program

The NSW Office for Science and Medical Research invites applications for grants under the NSW Spinal Cord Injury & Related Neurological Conditions Research Grants Program. The Program will provide competitive funding for two Research Fellowships and four Travel Scholarships for NSW researchers to develop their research careers.

NSW Spinal Cord Injury & Related Neurological Conditions Research Fellowships provide the following support:

• Career Development Fellowship – research funding of up to $200,000 per annum for three years for researchers who have at least 4 and less than 10 years post-doctoral experience and have undertaken doctoral thesis or postdoctoral research.
  
• Clinical Research Fellowship – research funding of up to $200,000 per annum for three years for research that involves contact with patients or has a direct link to patient outcomes. This Fellowship is open to medical graduates, allied health professionals, nurses and other health professionals with an appropriate doctorate degree.

NSW Spinal Cord Injury & Related Neurological Conditions Travel Scholarships provide the following support:

• Four Travel Scholarships – up to the maximum value of $5,000 are open to research students at the stage of submitting, or who had submitted their doctoral thesis within the last twelve months, having completed the majority of research undertaken towards their doctoral thesis at a university or research institute in New South Wales.

Applications for the NSW Spinal Cord Injury & Related Neurological Conditions Research Grants Program have now closed.

Downloads

1. Clinical Research Fellowship Guidelines (PDF)
2. Clinical Research Fellowship Application Forms (Word)
3. Career Development Fellowship Guidelines (PDF)
4. Career Development Fellowship Application Forms (Word)
5. Travel Scholarship Guidelines and Application Forms (Word)

Contact

Suzanne Pope,
Telephone: +61 2 9338 6784
Email: suzanne.pope@osmr.nsw.gov.au

See also:

View details of the grants awarded in Rounds 1, 2 and 3 of the program.

A review of the NSW Spinal Cord Injury and Related Neurological Conditions Research Grants Program is being conducted over the first half of 2008.