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.
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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.
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.
Australia R&D Tax Incentive
🇦🇺ATO · Australia
Funds Australian companies through tax incentives that reward innovation investment and reduce financial risk.
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.
ARC Discovery Projects
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.
ARC Future Fellowships
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.
ARC Linkage Projects
🇦🇺ARC · Australia
Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.
Innovation Booster Grant 2026
🇦🇺DEED · Australia
Funds WA early-stage founders and startups up to $50,000 to commercialise an innovation.
CSIRO On Accelerate
🇦🇺CSIRO · Australia
Supports Australian science-based startups with six-month acceleration, mentorship, and early-stage equity from CSIRO pathways.
ADDF Drug Development RFP
ADDF · Global / Multinational
Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.
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.
ADDF Prevention RFP
ADDF · Global / Multinational
Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Therapeutic Catalyst
CRUK · United Kingdom
Supports global cancer teams through CRUK to validate novel therapeutic concepts toward patient solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.