2010 Seed Funding Initiative
AMATA seeks to again help place additional new relevant technologies in Australia or New Zealand. The AMATA Committee has decided to make available a total of $150,000 to fund one or more projects in 2010. Even though the first round of applications closed last year, we have elected to keep this open until the $150,000 is allocated. More information on the grant guidelines is available for download.
AMATA (The Australasian Microarray and Associated Technologies Association) is an incorporated body set up with initial funding from the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. The mission of the Society is to assist in the development of microarray and associated high throughput technologies in Australia and New Zealand. Over the past several years, the Society has assisted with funding of several initiatives, including the bulk the purchase of Compugen Oligonucleotides for arraying at many Australian centres (nodes), arraying instrumentation for the AGRF, and a genome wide shRNA library for the Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics. AMATA also hosts an annual meeting and workshops, and facilitates communication among members and between nodes in most Australian capital cities and in Dunedin NZ.
Funding will be made available to a recipient to enable the purchase (in total or with additional contributions from other funding bodies) of a resource which will be of use to the Australian/New Zealand research communities, usually but not exclusively in the area of cancer research. The area of funding must be in agreement with the mission of the Society.
AMATA provides funding for such initiatives on a loan of seed funding basis. A condition of provision of seed capital to the venture, is that the applicant will enter into an agreement with the Society to repay the seed funding to the Society over an agreed timeframe (usually 1-2 years), and usually with the proceeds of a cost recovery fee for service for users of the resource. In this way, the capital funds of the Society are preserved for future funding rounds with a goal of providing continuing opportunities for novel technology implementation, resources and service provision into the future.
AMATA seeks to again help place additional new relevant technologies in Australia or New Zealand. The AMATA Committee has decided to make available a total of $150,000 to fund one or more projects in 2010. All applicants must be AMATA members and it is expected that applicants will either be node members of AMATA, or closely affiliated with an AMATA node. AMATA anticipates that funded ventures will provide a service or resource that will assist with enabling the research of its members. Through this form, AMATA invites Expressions of Interest from potential funding recipients. For further information, please contact the node members in your nearest capital city, or the Secretary, Dr Ruby Lin or Ms Vikki Marshall.
Applications for funding should address each of the questions detailed in the grant guidelines document. One hard copy of your application should be mailed to:
Dr Ruby Lin
Honorary Secretary, AMATA
In addition, a PDF document of your application should be emailed to: Assoc Prof. Gordon Smyth, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Last Updated ( Tuesday, 06 April 2010 18:57 )
