Identify your best funding options and prepare your applications. Clinical trials have unique work, highly specialised tasks, and require specialised workforce and skills. This requires funding support from the Sponsor of the study. In Australia there are three main sources of funding for clinical trials: Government, Commercial and non-government funding.

The most important part of any grant/funding application is reading the guidelines and ensuring that your clinical trial meets the eligibility criteria for the grant.

Many funding organisations require consumers to have been involved in the development of your funding application, particularly if a lay summary is required. See Consumer and Community Involvement and Grant Writing or a free training module on how to include consumers in your grant writing