We advertise for applications for Grants-in-Aid at the start of each year (for funding to start in January the following year).
Grants-in-Aid support research for 1 to 3 years. They're awarded based on each project's:
- relevance to cancer,
- excellence,
- the value of the research, and
- the researcher's capacity to successfully complete the research described in the application.
All applications go through a rigorous peer-review process. The state Cancer Councils work in partnership with the National Health and Medical Research Council, which provides us with assessments and rankings.
In 2018 Cancer Council Victoria spent $3.9 million on Grants-in-Aid, including funding for low survival cancers research from the Victorian Cancer Agency. Current recipients are listed below.
Prof Robin Anderson, Prof Robert Parton
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
Loss of a protein called caveolin-1 in host cells surrounding tumour results in promotion of breast cancer metastasis (2019-2021)
Dr Nicholas Clemons, Prof Wayne Phillips, Dr Gang Chen, Dr Cuong Duong, A/Prof Sarah-Jane Dawson, Prof David Watson, Prof Reginald Lord, A/Prof David Wang
The University of Melbourne
Development of a simple blood test to guide treatment decisions for patients with oesophageal cancer (2019-2021)
Dr James Dowty, A/Prof Daniel Buchanan, Prof Ingrid Winship, A/Prof Robert Waterland, Dr Jihoon Joo, Prof Mark Jenkins, Prof Melissa Southey
The University of Melbourne
Heritable methylation marks associated with colorectal cancer risk (2019-2020)
Dr Moritz Eissmann, Prof Matthias Ernst, Prof Alex Boussioutas
La Trobe University
Testing antibodies inhibiting IL33-signalling against gastric cancer (2019-2021)
A/Prof Thomas Gebhardt
The University of Melbourne
Long-term immune control of clinically invisible melanoma (2019-2021)
Dr Catherine Granger
The University of Melbourne
A randomised control trial to evaluate the effect of exercise and self-management on outcomes of people with operable lung cancer (2019-2021)
Dr Lev Kats, Prof Ricky Johnstone
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Development of new targeted therapies for acute myeloid leukaemia (2019-2021)
Dr Simon Keam
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Understanding and avoiding radiation resistance in prostate cancer using personalised medicine (2019-2021)
Prof John Mariadason
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
A new way to treat bowel cancer (2019-2021)
Prof Neil O'Brien-Simpson, A/Prof Andrea O'Connor, Prof Michael McCullough, Dr Jason Lenzo
The University of Melbourne
Under the tongue vaccine for oral and oesophageal cancers (2019-2021)
Dr Lorraine O'Reilly, Prof Andreas Strasser, A/Prof Nicholas Huntington
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Combating immunotherapy toxicities to guide safer gastric cancer therapy using a new pre-clinical model (2019-2021)
A/Prof Louise Purton, A/Prof Carl Walkley, Dr Meaghan Wall, Dr Helene Jousset
St Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
Identifying better therapies for blood cell cancers (2019-2021)
Prof Andrew Scott, A/Prof Hui Gan, Prof Weisan Chen
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
Improving GBM Response to Antibody-Drug Conjugate Therapy (2019-2020)
Prof Matthew J. Watt, Dr Renea A. Taylor, A/Prof Daniel Nomura
The University of Melbourne
Targeting fatty acid metabolism for prostate cancer therapy (2019-2021)
A/Prof Phillip Darcy, Dr Paul Beavis, Prof Dale Godfrey
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Investigating the role of a novel immune cell subset in cancer (2018-2020)
A/Prof Thomas John, Prof Andrew Scott, A/Prof Hui Gan
The Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute
New treatments for mesothelioma (2018-2020)
Dr Peter Janes, Prof Andrew Scott, A/Prof Thomas John
Monash University (2017-2018); La Trobe University (2018-2019)
Targeted antibody therapy for malignant mesothelioma
Lyall Watts Mesothelioma Research Grant (2017-2019)
A/Prof Kieran Harvey, Dr Nicola Waddell, A/Prof Kaylene Simpson
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
What causes mesothelioma and how can we treat it?
Lyall Watts Mesothelioma Research Grant (Sept 2016 - Aug 2019)