Submission

Applicants are required to complete the electronic forms. Only applications submitted on the standard forms will be processed. Please refer to the Guidance Notes (PDF file) and Explanatory Notes (PDF file) for details. Incomplete applications will not be processed and may result in withdrawal.

The information contained in the electronic forms will be automatically extracted into the Secretariat database. It is essential that the electronic forms are completed fully and accurately and that the format and protected features of the forms are not changed in any way.

Grants are allocated following a two-tiered peer review comprising a Referee Panel and the Grant Review Board. Applicants are therefore required to provide an adequate number of photocopied applications to the Secretariat.

Applicants are requested to provide on anonymised copy of the application (to allow unbiased peer review). This copy should have all references to the applicants deleted.

The application package should contain.

	The original signed Research Grant Application Form A and Form B;
	20 photocopies, 2-sided, of Form A and Form B (including ethical approval);
	5 anonymised copies to allow unbiased peer review. Anonymised copies should have all reference to the applicants deleted. In particular, Section 9 & 12 of Form A and Section 14 & 15 of Form B should be blanked out;
	5 anonymised copies of any in press Key References and Additional Material as specified in Section 13(i) & (j) for Form B; and
	One soft copy (1.44MB 3.5: floppy disk, MS Word (PC) format) of both Form A and Form B.

Resubmission

If you choose to resubmit your application, please ensure that your resubmission package contains the following:

Ethical Approval

A declaration of ethical approval is required before funding is released for any approved project. Such a declaration should be provided with the other materials at the time of application. Applicants from academic institutions and publicly-funded hospitals are expected to obtain ethical approval from their own institutions. Other applicants may contact the Research Fund Secretariat for a list of acceptable ethics committees. Please note, all research proposals must be examined by a local recognised ethics committee to determine whether or not ethical approval is required. While currently only experiments on vertebrate animals likely to cause pain demand ethical approval, Principal Applicants conducting experiments other than these are required to produce a certificate of exemption from an ethics committee. Self-declaration of exemption from ethical approval is not acceptable.