Cancer Trials Management Scheme Competitive Grants

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

In partnership with the Victorian Government through the Victorian Cancer Agency, Cancer Council Victoria is offering up to $1.5 million to build capacity in cancer survivorship and supportive care clinical trials to improve equity of access in Victoria.

The Cancer Trials Management Scheme (CTMS) competitive grant round will fund up to three projects, up to a value of $500,000 per project, for a maximum of three years. Funding will be offered to projects that address:

  • an unmet need and
  • build capacity to conduct and recruit to clinical trials in cancer survivorship and/or supportive care.

Eligibility

To be eligible for funding:

  • Investigators must work in the cancer control sector, with an interest and experience in supportive care, survivorship or clinical trials, or be collaborating with an individual or team with experience in these areas;
  • The project must address an unmet need and build capacity to conduct and recruit to cancer clinical trials in supportive care and/or survivorship;
  • Investigators must not be receiving, received or applied for funding from a tobacco industry or any of its agencies or subsidiaries;
  • The project must be led by a Victorian Administering Organisation and the majority of the research must be conducted in Victoria.

Applications are now open and will be received and reviewed across two stages and will close on Thursday 15 July 2021.

If you have any questions about this funding, please contact Dorani Lacey, Research Governance and Optimal Care Unit at Cancer Council Victoria on 03 9514 6319 or email grants@cancervic.org.au.