Round 4 NCCRED Seed Funding Grant Applications are open !
NCCRED is opening a competitive round of seed funding grants to support innovative clinical research for the treatment of substance use disorder due to methamphetamine or emerging drugs of concern.
Round 4 Seed Funding Grants
Applications of between $5,000 to $100,000 per project will be considered with $200,000 available in Round 4 of funding! Applications close on 14th April 2021
Focus of the funding round
The current funding round aims is to provide financial support in the form of:
- Seed-funding grants to establish investigator-initiated clinical research; or
- A value-add to research projects that are currently underway.
Projects must relate to methamphetamine or emerging drugs of concern and preference will be given to projects that address the research priorities outlined in the NCCRED seed funding round 4 guidelines and application form below.
Importantly, applicants are encouraged to apply for funding that will enable a study to:
- Answer relevant clinical questions
- Build research capacity
- Produce translational research results (see criteria below for more details)
The grant should produce a fundable project that has the capacity to attract further funding (as required).
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Key Dates
| Applications open |
18 Feb 21 |
| Applications close |
14 Apr 21 |
| Applicants are notified of results |
18 May 21 |
| Final study report due to NCCRED |
10 Jun 22 |
Key Dates
| Applications open |
18 Feb 21 |
| Applications close |
14 Apr 21 |
| Applicants are notified of results |
18 May 21 |
| Final study report due to NCCRED |
10 Jun 22 |
Applications
Applications are open to clinicians or clinical researchers (or teams of clinicians and researchers) from any background who are working in the Alcohol and Other Drugs and other healthcare sectors. Applications will ideally create networks or build partnerships (e.g. academic, clinical, consumer) to maximize reach and opportunities.
Grant applications will be reviewed by the independent NCCRED Methamphetamine and Emerging Drugs Working Group and presented to the NCCRED Board for support of funding.
For more information on the evaluation criteria of the grants, submission of the grants, to access the guidelines and the application form, please follow the link below.
Applicants considering submission should contact the NCCRED Clinical Research Lead, Krista Siefried, to discuss the grants further, discuss mentorship for assistance in conceptualising your project or developing your funding application, or for any questions you can email us via the link below.
Are you a clinician who is interested in applying for an NCCRED clinical research grant but aren’t sure where to start?
NCCRED hosted three introductory webinars for clinicians interested in clinical research.
- An introduction to evidence-based practice for clinicians in the AOD sector
- Introduction to Clinical Research for clinicians in the AOD sector
- Introduction to Good Clinical Practice in Clinical Research (ICH-GCP E6 R(2)) for clinicians working in the AOD sector.
The webinars covered the fundamentals of establishing and conducting good clinical research, in an attempt to make the process accessible and attractive to new researchers.
