Funding Guidance
CoLab's research funding is highly competitive, and institutional boundaries or processes do not constrain us.
Applying for CoLab funding
We welcome funding applications from researchers and clinicians across Australia whose work aligns with our current priorities. All proposals are reviewed for scientific merit, clinical impact, strategic alignment, and real-world impact on patients, survivors, and families.
Funding is available through structured rounds aligned to our Impact Programs. Before applying for CoLab funding, we encourage researchers and clinicians to review our grant funding webpages.
We do not accept unsolicited funding applications.
Funding principles
Children's Cancer CoLab grant funding is guided by our key funding principles.
Grant conditions
All grants awarded by Children's Cancer CoLab must follow our grant conditions.
Funding guidelines
Guidelines for our 2026 - 2027 funding are available for our Transformative Therapies and Future Leaders Impact Programs.
Transformative Therapies funding guidelines
Accelerating high-impact discovery to transform outcomes in the hardest-to-treat childhood cancers.
Future Leaders funding guidelines
Australia’s talent pipeline in paediatric oncology research and care.
Key funding dates
Clinicians and researchers wanting to apply for a Children's Cancer CoLab grant are encouraged to join our mailing list for timely alerts about upcoming funding rounds and deadlines.
Funding information video
Hear from the CoLab team to help you prepare your application for our 2026–27 Transformative Therapies and Future Leaders funding opportunities. In this session, we’ll walk you through our funding principles, assessment criteria, application process, and key grant conditions.
Lived experience review process video
Discover how CoLab's lived experience review process works with Dr Sarah Stewart, our Impact Program Manager, and two of our lived experience reviewers, Lucy Francazio and Bridgette Veneris.
Apply for funding through our grant portal
Ensure you have read our grant funding pages before you apply.
Funded projects
Our Impact Program funding is allocated through a competitive process underpinned by robust expert review.
