Carty Signature Grants

Each year, one grant will be offered.

Award Amount: up to $390,000

Duration: 3 years

Purpose

The Carty Signature Grant will be offered to one researcher each year at an eligible Victorian medical research institution to support pilot concepts and novel research initiatives.

Our program aims to nurture early to mid-career researchers and encourage retention of quality researchers in Victoria.

Ideally the Carty Signature Grant will:

• provide significant funding for a researcher who has already generated some amount of preliminary data, but is required to demonstrate additional, significant progress before they apply to governmental or other funding agencies.
• fund a project in an established laboratory that will serve as the basis for the applicant to build their research team.

What we look for

Medical research projects in a variety of disciplines including basic science, clinical and public health.

The L.E.W. Carty Charitable Fund prefers to fund innovative proposals for which there are few alternative sources of funding, and to support the ability of investigators to generate the data needed to receive governmental or other third-party funding after the conclusion of the Carty Signature Grant.

Grants

Instalments of up to $130,000 per year for a period of three years will be awarded, subject to annual reviews and continuation of research in areas relevant to the purpose of this program.

Appropriate expenses include salary support for the investigator and graduate research assistants, equipment, supplies and other research expenses excluding travel.

Research Criteria

We define an early to mid-career researcher as a person who is between the start of their third year and the end of their sixth year following completion of their PhD.

The L.E.W. Carty Charitable Fund does not support pre-doctoral fellowships or undergraduate students.

Researchers need to have a demonstrated track record e.g. published papers in the field including a statement of impact.

Although preliminary data is required for all grants, the L.E.W. Carty Charitable Fund considers its grants as “pilot funding”.

The research organisation will need to demonstrate that the field of research is a priority area for the institution, that it has a depth of research in that field and is able to support the researcher in their work.

The research project is to be undertaken in Victoria.