CCRE Spine Clinical Research Fellowship Program
A key aim of the CCRE is to train a new generation of transdisciplinary clinical spine scientists. Currently there are significant barriers to training clinical researchers including access to funding, training and research support.
The CCRE will fill this gap through:
- unique opportunities for clinical research training/support for promising clinical researchers (via a Clinical Research Fellowship Program);
- access to a mentor network of Australia’s leading spine scientists (via the National Network of Spine Scientists); and
- building capacity to support the highest standard of clinical research with community interaction (via the Community-Based Clinical Research Centre and community participation).
CCRE SPINE Short-term Clinician Research Grants - Our 2009 round has now closed and our Clinical Research Grants awarded! Congratulations!
The CCRE SPINE Clinician Research Grants provide an opportunity for clinicians to undertake a short-term research project addressing an aspect of spinal pain, injury or health. The short-term clinician research grants provide the financial, technical and other support required to bring a research project to successful completion.
During 2009 a total of 7 grants were allocated to fund clinicians for a variety of innovative projects. No further funding is presently available and no grant round will be offered in 2010.
Post-Doctoral Fellowships and Doctoral Scholarships
'Research the causes and treatments of spinal pain as part of a leading research centre alongside internationally recognised researchers'
The NHMRC Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health (CCRE SPINE) is one of Australia’s leading centres of research into causes and treatments of spinal pain. In order to train a new generation of scientists fellowships/scholarships are available for candidates with a background in basic or clinical sciences. Projects may be nominated by the applicant or identified by CCRE SPINE investigators.
A total of 2 Post-doctoral fellowships and 5 Doctoral Scholarships have been allocated through the CCRE SPINE and scholarships are currently closed to new applications.