Cancer Research Grants
The Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) is dedicated to funding research in Australia that has the power to make significant breakthroughs in cancer diagnosis and treatment. It does so by awarding multi-million dollar grants, stimulating Australia’s best scientists to embark on ground-breaking research projects that speed up the cancer discovery process – ultimately working to save lives by saving time.
ACRF recently announced its latest cancer research funding grants for the current year, totaling $9 million in research funding for three major breakthrough projects.
Since its inception, the ACRF has awarded $79 million in research grants to Australian cancer research institutes, including four of the largest private cancer research grants ever awarded – $5 million each to the Melbourne Comprehensive Cancer Centre (2006), Sydney’s Centenary Institute for Cancer Research (2007), the Garvan St Vincent’s Campus Centre (Kinghorn Cancer Centre) (2010) and the Westmead Institute for Cancer Research most recently in 2011.
$53 million of those grants have been awarded since 2006 – a reflection of the increasing need for funding research that rapidly progresses the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
There has been great progress with many cancers and cancer treatments in the last few years, but costs for sophisticated equipment and laboratories are immense.
Our aim for funding research in Australia is to enable the best-equipped laboratories here in Australia, and to attract and inspire the best and brightest scientific minds to take on groundbreaking new cancer research with the potential to prevent and cure this devastating disease.
In 2007 we increased the minimum amount of our grants to $1.5 million, and invited applications for cancer research grants of up to $5 million for ambitious, innovative research projects. Since 2007 results have been hugely encouraging for cancer patients – we have received a record number of outstanding applications and one day our dream is to be able to fund all that meet our standards of excellence.
Contact us
If you have any questions regarding the processes by which ACRF is funding research in Australia, please contact Cheryl Riddington on 1300 884 988 or criddington@acrf.com.au.
On behalf of Australia’s leading cancer researchers, we thank our donors and supporters. It is their generosity that makes it possible to provide these major grants – we receive no funding from any other sources.
