Mito Foundation’s Incubator Grants – Australia

This funding mechanism aims to facilitate high-quality preliminary studies to enable the researcher to generate sufficient data to secure external funding to continue their research.

Impact Areas and Indicators

• Health
  • Patient diagnosis
  • Development of new diagnostic tools for mito
• Knowledge
  • Discovery, validation and characterisation of genes, pathways or mechanisms directly related to primary mitochondrial disease
  • New knowledge into the incidence, prevalence and impact of mitochondrial disease
• Social
  • Research has resulted in a measurable improvement in quality of care
  • Improved ability to access healthcare services
• Informing Decision Making
  • Research informed development of policy, changes to guidelines or clinical practice
  • Contribution to mitochondrial clinical and research advisory panels
• Mito Workforce Research and Clinical Capacity Building
  • Evidence of meaningful community engagement in research
  • Creation of new research and clinical networks
• Economic
  • Improved efficiency of health service delivery
  • Economic evaluations directly relevant to primary mitochondrial disease

Funding Information

• Mito Foundation’s Incubator Grants are charitable grants of up to A$25,000 for a period of up to 12 months.
• Funding cannot be used to cover on-costs, infrastructure, or other indirect costs. They encourage applications with co-funding from another organisation, although this is not a requirement for this funding mechanism.

Eligibility Criteria

• Research must be focussed on primary mitochondrial disease
• Proposals addressing innovative research efforts will be considered. Funding is not available for well-established research programs under this funding mechanism
• Australian and overseas applications are welcome.

For more information, visit Mito Foundation.