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Biotech grants in Australia

Explore Biotech grants for companies in Australia. This list brings together funding for drug discovery, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and life-science research from Australian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Australia, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Biotech in Australia come first.

Showing 25-48 of 330 grants

AU
Between cycles

Export Market Development Grant (EMDG)

🇦🇺Austrade · Australia

Reimburses Australian businesses for a share of their eligible marketing and promotion spend when they sell or plan to sell products overseas.

AUD 80K
AU
Between cycles

Export Market Development Grants (EMDG)

🇦🇺Austrade · Australia

Pays Australian exporters and their representative bodies between $20,000 and $80,000 a year in matched funding to market and promote their goods and services in international markets, with the maximum set by their export-readiness tier.

AUD 20K – AUD 80K
Australian Taxation Office logo
Between cycles

Australia R&D Tax Incentive

🇦🇺ATO · Australia

Funds Australian companies through tax incentives that reward innovation investment and reduce financial risk.

AUD 150M
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.

AUD 50K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Discovery Projects

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.

AUD 30K – AUD 500K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Future Fellowships

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.

AUD 60K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Linkage Projects

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.

AUD 50K – AUD 300K
DE
Closed

Innovation Booster Grant 2026

🇦🇺DEED · Australia

Funds WA early-stage founders and startups up to $50,000 to commercialise an innovation.

AUD 50K
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation logo
Discontinued

CSIRO On Accelerate

🇦🇺CSIRO · Australia

Supports Australian science-based startups with six-month acceleration, mentorship, and early-stage equity from CSIRO pathways.

AUD 66K – AUD 132K
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation logo
Open

ADDF Drug Development RFP

ADDF · Global / Multinational

Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.

BiotechMedtech
$5MSep'26
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation logo
Open

ADDF Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker RFP

ADDF · Global / Multinational

Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.

BiotechMedtech
$600KSep'26
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation logo
Open

ADDF Prevention RFP

ADDF · Global / Multinational

Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.

BiotechMedtech
$5MSep'26
EIT Health logo
Open

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Micro-Credentials Call

EIT Health · European Union

Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.

MedtechBiotech
€150KSep'26
CD
Open

FY26 Reconstructive Transplant Research Program Concept Award

CDMRP · United States

Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.

BiotechMedtech
$200KSep'26
DI
Open

Novel Technologies for Rapid Proof of Clean in Professional Environments

Diversey · United States

Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.

HardwareBiotech
$10KSep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

Metastasis Research Network

NIH · United States

Funds four centres to work out how cancer actually spreads — each on one theme, through two or three interlocking basic research projects.

Biotech
$1.3MSep'26
Cancer Research UK logo
Open

Therapeutic Catalyst

CRUK · United Kingdom

Supports global cancer teams through CRUK to validate novel therapeutic concepts toward patient solutions.

BiotechMedtech
£350KSep'26
GF
Open

Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows

Gates Foundation · Global / Multinational

Funds teams up to $800,000 to build cheap pathogen-sequencing workflows for poorer countries.

Biotech
$800KSep'26
Gates Foundation logo
Open

Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows

Gates Foundation · United States

Funds research teams building low-cost, simplified pathogen-sequencing workflows that bring the cost of sequencing a sample down to about US$1-10 for use in low- and middle-income countries.

Biotech
$300K – $800KSep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

Establishing a Center for the Advancement of Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Pharmacotherapeutics through Training and Preclinical Support

NIH · United States

Funds one centre that trains researchers in formal drug development for substance use disorder and pays to test their best ideas.

Biotech
Sep'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

Cooperative Agreement for In Vivo High-Resolution Imaging for Inner Ear Visualization

NIH · United States

Funds high-risk clinical trials of new ways to see inside the living human inner ear. A trial is compulsory, and NIH stays in the room.

MedtechPhotonics+1
$500KOct'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

In Vivo High-Resolution Imaging for Inner Ear Visualization

NIH · United States

Funds building the imaging that can finally show hair cells and membranes inside a living human ear. A clinical trial is optional.

MedtechPhotonics+1
$500KOct'26
National Institute on Aging logo
Open

NIA R01: Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease

NIA · United States

Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.

BiotechMedtech+2
Oct'26
National Institutes of Health logo
Open

Revision Applications for Validation of Biomarker Assays Developed Through NIH-Supported Research Grants

NIH · United States

Funds an addition to an existing NIH grant, to take a cancer biomarker assay from working in the lab to working in the clinic.

BiotechMedtech+1
Oct'26

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