Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)

The Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) – Genomics Health Futures Mission (GHFM) - 2024 Genomics Health Futures Grant Opportunity will provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects that:

Stream 1 (Targeted Call for Research): develop and/or implement novel genomic methods to improve diagnosis, therapeutic intervention, and/or surveillance of new, emerging, and/or re-emerging infectious diseases.

Stream 1 funding is available as follows:

• Topic A: Microbial surveillance
• Topic B: Antimicrobial resistance
• Topic C: Infectious diseases.

Stream 2 (Targeted Call for Research): develop and/or implement pharmacogenomic approaches to reduce medication harm and adverse side effects. 

Stream 3 (Incubator): develop novel methods for using polygenic risk scores to identify subgroups of the population at high risk of common and complex diseases.

Stream 3 funding is available as follows:

• Topic A: Cardiovascular disease
• Topic B: Diabetes
• Topic C: Other common and/or complex diseases.

Stream 4 (Incubator): develop novel methods for improving the accuracy and usefulness of polygenic risk scores to stratify people with common cancers for surveillance and treatment.

Stream 4 funding is available as follows:

• Topic A: Breast cancer
• Topic B: Colorectal cancer
• Topic C: Prostate cancer
• Topic D: Other common cancers.

Stream 5 (Incubator): undertake research to enhance or streamline uptake of clinical genomics into practice. 

Stream 6 (Incubator): conduct small-scale developmental projects to establish feasible, evidence-based genomics approaches for population cohort research that focus on culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Amount: Up to $3,000,000

Closing Date: 05 February 2025