Most researchers miss out on innovation grants while medical fund sits on $25b Nine in 10 Australian researchers had their “ideas grant” applications rejected last year, even as Australia’s medical investment fund sits on $5 billion more than it was designed to hold.

The 2011 ‘Discoveries Need Dollars’ campaign led to the MRFF that we now have today. I think it is time to reactivate the campaign to push for a new cash injection into NHMRC discovery health & medical research! #auspol #researchsky #nhmrc #discoveriesneeddollars
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Australian researchers: share your experience of the current disasterous funding scheme outcomes. #SaveOzScience #discoveriesneeddollars

#DiscoveriesNeedDollars

this is unsustainable, the $600M underspend of the #MRFF could be funnelled, or at least partially funnelled, to supporting excellent #NHMRC applications that fall below the funding cut off because there is too little money in the pot #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #SaveOzScience

An abismal 8% success rate for this year’s #NHMRC #IdeasGrant scheme. Must be an all time low. Congratulations to those successful, you really earned it! Commiserations to the NINETY TWO percent of applicants who didn’t get it… #australianresearch #discoveriesneeddollars 🥼🧪🔬🧫 🇦🇺

A purpose built solution to Australia’s biomedical funding crisis….. release the #MRFF = invest in our future scientists & their discoveries. #DiscoveriesNeedDollars www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Billions going unspent from Australia’s $24b medical research fund Costings commissioned by independent MP Monique Ryan reveal the government could double how much funding it gives to innovative health research each year.

The National Association of Research Fellows join the call for full disbursement of the #MRFF #DiscoveriesNeedDollars
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Great discussions at the #NARF AGM and presentation from NARF postdoc award recipient @drwilliamreay.bsky.social

We will keep advocating for #biomedicalscience, robust #peerreview and more funding #discoveriesneeddollars

Looking forward to continuing our work in 2025 and representing the sector

Webinar hosted by the #NHMRC on the national strategy around health and medical research. Hearing from the chair of the committee Rosemary Huxtable AO on the timeline ahead and the consultation plan #biomedicalresearch #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars

If your #NHMRC ideas grant was unsuccessful and you have a story to share about the impact of this on your #biomedicalresearch, career, team - get in touch. Federal DOH have asked #NARF to collect stories of impact of low funding. #SaveOzScience #DiscoveriesNeedDollars #EMCRs

and so #NHMRC ideas grants are out under embargo and we must all celebrate or commiserate (~90%) in secret, in isolation. This is not the way.
You are more than the grant outcomes, the system is broken and in desperate need of a major injection of $$$ #DiscoveriesNeedDollars

You know if the scientists are protesting en masse something is broken. We did this in Aus for #discoveriesNeedDollars #Rally4Research in like 2011? When it leaked the research budget was gonna be cut. It was not cut. Honestly probably need to think about a repeat situation is so poor here now

Oh no. Thats terrible. Take to the streets, get the people involved. We had to do that here and social media campaign #DiscoveriesNeedDollars