Application forms, information booklets, assessment criteria, progress report pro-formas and other supporting material for Heart Foundation funding will be available when the awards open for application.

 

Pro-formas and other information for Grants-in-Aid and previous scholarships and fellowships is available on the Information for currently funded researchers page.

 

Please ensure you read the relevant instructions very carefully before submitting your application. Check the closing dates for each award to make sure you submit all parts of your application by the required deadline.  

 

 

 

Australian Indigenous Scholarships
Offered to identified Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples to undertake a PhD or Masters (by research) and build research capacity in the community.

 

Health Professional Scholarships
Encourages health professionals (including allied health professionals) to undertake a PhD in cardiovascular research. It provides up to 3 years of funding so that applicants can return to the main PhD stream after a number of non-academic years and become eligible for other PhD awards.  

 

Postdoctoral Fellowships
Available to PhD graduates in their first 3 years after obtaining their PhD. This award helps promising early career cardiovascular researchers further develop research skills and become more competitive for future funding.

 

Future Leader Fellowships
The Heart Foundation offers two levels of Future Leader Fellowships for PhD graduates 3-10 years post-PhD. Generous funding supports the best and brightest cardiovascular researchers as they build their research capacity and become leaders of research groups.

 

Acknowledges and encourages innovation in research by providing a unique opportunity for additional funding support to fellowship recipients.

 

Vanguard Grants provide funding to test the feasibility of innovative concepts in public health and/or health services - including clinical services delivery - that may lead to larger, more rigorous testing in the future. 

 

Collaboration and Exchange Awards
Collaboration and Exchange Awards offer Heart Foundation–funded scholars and postdoctoral fellows additional funding to visit Australian and overseas research facilities in order to develop collaborations that have the potential to further and strengthen their research activity and career.

 

Partnership Engagement Grants
Provides financial, reputational and in-kind support for quality, large-scale research applications for funding from other sources

 

Heart Foundation Focus Grants
Each year, the Heart Foundation will determine and announce research questions for funding that are directly relevant to the organisation’s work.

 

South Australian Cardiovascular Research Development Program awards 
The South Australian Cardiovascular Research Development Program (SACRDP) is supporting high quality research, which is relevant to heart, stroke and blood vessel disease with a focus on supporting early career researchers.  The aim of this funding is to stimulate, enhance and sustain the collaborative potential of South Australian researchers

NHMRC – Heart Foundation Translating Research into Practice (TRIP) Fellowship
Applications for 2013 TRIP Fellowships have now closed. For information about the fellowship visit the NHMRC website.  

 

 

 

The Heart Foundation Research Program supports approximately $13 million in research each year. To determine which applications will be funded, all applicants enter a rigorous peer review process. Assessment is not undertaken by Heart Foundation Research Program staff but rather involves multiple, independent reviews by suitably qualified researchers.