Medtech grants in Australia

Closed

Funds Australian companies in seven priority sectors with debt, equity, and guarantee instruments.

Supports the move from health and medical research in Victoria into clinical translation for patient impact.

Open

Offers The Audacious Project invitation-only multi-issue funding for social-impact ideas with broad partner backing.

Between cycles

Runs students and early career scholars with mentoring support for CRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.

Between cycles

Administers research teams and institutions for CRF Research Grant in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.

Open

Funds Queensland women-led innovation businesses raising early-stage equity through matched co-investment grants.

Open

Funds Australian small businesses and researchers to run fast innovation pilots with CSIRO.

Open

Funds Australian Queensland businesses to co-develop projects with regional universities under matching support.

Between cycles

Funds Australian startups and SMEs to solve government-nominated challenges with new tech.

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

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.

Between cycles

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

Closed

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

Closed

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

Closed

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

Closed

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

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

Discontinued

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

Open

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

Open

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

Open

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

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

Open

Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

Open

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