Funding Opportunities

We are investing $45 million to improve outcomes for childhood cancer

Supporting collaborative research and innovation with the highest potential to improve outcomes for childhood cancer worldwide.

The Children’s Cancer CoLab uses a sustainable research funding model with a competitive application process. We prioritise rapid translation of research into new treatments for young patients, and also support the next generation of childhood cancer researchers and clinicians. Every dollar invested by the Children’s Cancer CoLab must generate an improved outcome for childhood cancer.

First Roundtable, 21 May 2025

Survivorship and Living Well

Roundtables in progress

Develop and implement pioneering interventions that reduce the long-term impacts of cancer treatments on children’s growth, development and overall health.

$1.5m available for this round of funding

Next-Generation Therapies

Funding EOIs open September 2025

Discover breakthrough therapies for hard-to-treat childhood cancers to improve survival outcomes for young patients.

$1m available for this round of funding

Safer Therapies

Funding EOIs open September 2025

Evaluate new therapies and models of care that minimise cancer treatment-related toxicities to improve long-term quality of life while maintaining survival outcomes for young patients.

 $1m available for this round of funding

Future Leaders

Funding EOIs open September 2025

Foster emerging talents in researchers and clinicians to help Australia attract and retain the brightest minds in paediatric oncology.

Targeted funding calls only

Innovation Accelerators

Open soon

Streamline resources and platforms to catalyse multidisciplinary collaboration across a broad range of sectors involved in childhood cancer, including research, clinical, industry, education, and charities.

2025-2026

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