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The Early Detection and Innovation Grant aims to fund Australian researchers to explore innovative, early-stage approaches for improving the early detection and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, aiming to generate preliminary data and accelerate project development.

The Early Detection Innovation Grant will provide funding to Australian reachers who:

• Encourage new strategies, approaches and methods to detect and diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier

• Support innovative ideas that have the potential to impact early detection or earlier diagnosis, but may not have extensive preliminary supporting data

• Answer key feasibility and proof-of-concept question and arrive at critical project inflection points in an accelerated time fram

• Support established and/or early career researchers to develop preliminary data and attract additional funding in subsequence years

Criteria for funding:

• Applications should demonstrate solid rationale and extensive planning

• Proof-of-concept or exploratory data to demonstrate the feasibility and rationale and your research questions should be detailed sufficiently

• Applicants should propose an innovative idea that extends beyond incremental improvements to existing technologies

• Projects focused on cancer prevention rather than early detection and diagnosis are not in the scope of this scheme

• Applicants must disclose any potential overlap with other current or pending research funding.