MS Australia offers a range of grants, fellowships and scholarships to support and accelerate research into causes and prevention, better treatments and a cure for MS. Although eligibility requirements and conditions differ between awards, all applications must have a direct link to advancing our knowledge of MS.
For further information about eligibility criteria for each grant type, please click on the hyperlinks below.
Note: To be eligible for NHMRC funding, or for MS Australia-NHMRC co-funding, you must also submit a separate application to the NHMRC (see below for further information and here for NHMRC closing dates).
MS AUSTRALIA GRANT TYPE | Applications Open | Applications close |
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Project Grants | ||
Project Grant | 17 March 2025 | 25 April 2025
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Fellowships | ||
Postdoctoral Fellowship* | 21 April 2025 | 30 May 2025 |
Senior Fellowship* | Not offered in 2025 | |
Paired Fellowship | Not offered in 2025 | |
Scholarships | ||
Postgraduate Scholarship Round 1* | 03 February 2025 | 07 March 2025
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Postgraduate Scholarship Round 2* | 02 June 2025 | 04 July 2025
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Incubator Grants | ||
Incubator Grant round 1 | 03 February 2025 | 07 March 2025
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Incubator Grant round 2 | 02 June 2025 | 04 July 2025
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Ian Ballard Travel Award | ||
Ian Ballard Travel Award | 02 June 2025 | 04 July 2025 |
*Opportunities also exist for MS Australia top-up funding for outstanding NHMRC funded Fellowships and Postgraduate Scholarships. For details please click here.
Before applying for any of the Grant funding awards listed above, please read the MS Australia funding process document, the conditions of award document and the sample peer review document below.
If you are a researcher and you have any questions about the grants available or the application process, please contact MS Australia’s Grants Coordinator.
If you are a person with MS and have any question or would like further information about the research we fund, please contact MS Australia.
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