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2026 Independent Research Institutes Infrastructure Support Scheme
Offered by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
Closes September 2026
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Verified against National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)'s own page on 27 Aug 2026
Key facts
- Funding amount
- Not stated
- Total pool available: $33,802,801
- Status
- Open now
- Opened 29 July 2026
- Jurisdiction
- Commonwealth of Australia
- ACT, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS
- Last verified
- 27 Aug 2026
- The date we last read this program on National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)'s own page.
Who can apply
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.
- Research organisations
Eligibility, in the funder's words
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What the program funds
IRIISS allocates funds for infrastructure support to independent medical research institutes managing NHMRC research funds. IRIISS aims to develop and maintain infrastructure to support high quality health and medical research by contributing to infrastructure costs associated with competitively awarded NHMRC research grants managed by independent medical research institutes.
That description is National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)'s own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0 (Australian Government default open licence). Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.
What it is for
This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.
How to apply
Applications for 2026 Independent Research Institutes Infrastructure Support Scheme are made through National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.
Apply for 2026 Independent Research Institutes Infrastructure Support Scheme on the official site
Applications close in September 2026. Government grant portals are busiest on the final day and several of them close on the stroke of the deadline, so the practical advice is to submit a day early.
Where this came from
Sourced from GrantConnect (grants.gov.au), © Commonwealth of Australia, used under CC BY 4.0.
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