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ARC DISCOVERY and LINKAGE Opportunities for Medical Research: Diversify Research Funding. Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication. Winthrop Professor Colin Raston. [email protected]. http://www.strategicnano.uwa.edu.au/. November 2010. ARC DISCOVERY: the Fundamentals - support. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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ARC DISCOVERY and LINKAGE
Opportunities for Medical Research:Diversify Research Funding
Winthrop Professor Colin Raston
http://www.strategicnano.uwa.edu.au/ November 2010
Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication
ARC DISCOVERY: the Fundamentals - support
• Funding range: $20,000 - $500,000 p.a.
• Duration of Funding: 1- 5 years (usually three years).
• Research Types supported• Pure basic research• Strategic basic research• Applied research
• Research Types Not Supported• Clinical medical and dental research!!!!!!!• …….
ARC DISCOVERY: the Fundamentals
• Dates for the award of a PhD (or having achieved equivalent status) to be eligible for Discovery Projects Fellowships and/or Early Career Researcher (ECR) status:
• Early Career Researcher (ECR) - on or after 1 March 2006.
• Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD) - on or after 1 March 2008.
• Other fellowships – ARC consultation paper!
- Prof Margaret Sheil, CEO ARC
- Woolnough Lecture Theatre, 11.00 am Friday Dec 3
Know the College of Experts members
• Biological Sciences and Biotechnology (BSB)Biological Sciences and Biotechnology (BSB)
• Engineering and Environmental Science (EE)Engineering and Environmental Science (EE)
• Mathematics. Information and Communication Mathematics. Information and Communication Sciences (MIC)Sciences (MIC)
• Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences (PCG)Physics, Chemistry and Geosciences (PCG)
• Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences (SBE) Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences (SBE)
Selection Criteria
• Investigator/s track recordInvestigator/s track record - - 40%40%
• Relative to opportunities
• Proposed project content – 60%Proposed project content – 60%
• Significance and innovation - 30%
Approach and Training (including appropriateness of budget) - 20%
National Benefit - 10%
• Collaboration - Chief Investigators (CIs)• Research Team versus single CI – CI with ARC DP
(LP) • Australian Partner Investigators (PIs), eg CSIRO• International collaboration - Partner Investigators
(PIs)• Multi-institutional versus single institution• Not an ARC LIEF (LE) application - Large equipment requests can be a problem • Research training• Outcomes and outputs - deliverables• Mentoring• How to optimise your rankings?
Establish Strategies
Long-term strategies
• Connect with the east coast
• Check the rules carefully
• Form long lasting collaborative research teams
• Keep the Track Record in check for all CIs (and PIs)
• ARC or NH&MRC or both!!!!
• …..Maximum number of DP grants including fellowships
• 2• ≤ 1 as sole CI
Success rate ~ 20%
ARC LP: Partner Organisation (PO)ARC LP: Partner Organisation (PO)
• Industry (PO) - broad definition
• ‘Product’ to sell to industry
• Deliverables and publications (outcomes versus outputs)
• Research ‘training’ for the industry
• Funding ‘opportunity’ for industry
• Tax relief
• Community commitment
• Industry access to major infrastructure
• International collaboration – PI and PO
• Protected IP
Models for developing partnerships
• Through scholarships
- Summer vacation
- Honours
• Workshops and ‘Breakfast’ meetings
• Industry site visits
• Marketing - trade displays
• Through Alistar Robertson etc.
• Office of Industry and Innovation
• Technology roadmaps with the company
• ………
Challenges
• Expect delays - testing your commitment?
• Awareness and agreement for partnership
• Setting realistic achievables
• Setting realistic budgets
• Financial commitment - including in-kind$
• More than one ‘industry’
• IP agreements
• Dealing with different personnel in each organisation
• Funding up to five years!
• High in innovation (25% weighting)
• APAI’s and/or other personnel including APDI’s
• Short term versus multiple year support (up to
five years)
• Large equipment requests can be a problem
• Strong commitment form industry
- 20% cash for the ‘alliance’
- in-kind + cash = ARC support
• ≥ $500k/year possible – separate process
Other issuesOther issues
Maximum number of LP grants• 4• 4 APAI only
Success rate ~ 50%
Proven model – Postdoctoral Research Associate +
APAI
• $25k/year from PO
• $100k in kind support
• $125k request from ARC
Current ARC LP• iCeutica - drug delivery
- Raston, Iyer, Lim, Bosch (PI)- PRA + APAI
• Chimere Pearls - medical applications of pearl nacre- Raston, Iyer, Bond, Dunlop, Wood- PRA + 3APAI
NanoDynamics - process intensification- Raston, Jachuck (PI)- APAI
Requested ARC LP• The Perth Mint - applications of nano- Au, Ag, Pd, Pt
- Raston, Iyer- PRA + APAI
ARC consultation paper
-Prof Margaret Sheil, CEO ARC
- Woolnough Lecture Theatre, 11.00 am Friday Dec 3
Final wordFinal word
You are doing science for a reason in engaging with industry – convey your passion and excitement about your research and ideas as clearly as possible.
Seek advice/feedback from all the sources available.
Questions