Leading Edge Grant Round 45

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Leading Edge Grant - Application Form - Grant Round 45

Introduction

Leading Edge grants provide medium term (up to two years) support for:

  • seed funding for innovative research that may have the potential for future funding by granting bodies, or
  • to leverage additional funding from other granting bodies, including but not limited to NHMRC, ARC or other foundations
  • original research that demonstrates importance to emergency healthcare.

Please refer to the Funding Guidelines available on EMF's website to ensure you meet the eligibility criteria and for detailed information on completing your application.

Full applications are due by Monday 20 April 2026 at 10:00am AEST.

Please Note: 

  • to prevent loss of data please save your work regularly. SmartyGrants will timeout after 30 minutes.
  • a submission can be prepared off-line using the grant application Word template on our website
  • each upload facility provided for the attachment of documentation has a maximum file limit of 25MB however it is strongly recommended that you try to keep files under 5MB.

Should you have any questions, please contact the EMF Research Team on (07) 3112 8668 or email grants@emfoundation.org.au.