the ive of this grant opportunity is to provide grants of financial assistance to support australian medical research and medical innovation projects that: stream 1 (incubator): conduct early stage small-scale research led by early career researchers that seeks to assess the potential feasibility of novel strategies to address a critical or intractable health issue stream 2 (accelerator): establish a large-scale interdisciplinary research program led by mid-career researchers that drives implementation of substantial improvements to health care and/or health system effectiveness stream 3 (targeted call for research): utilise co-funding between mrff, a sponsoring academic organisation and partner organisation(s) to accelerate translation of research led by early to mid-career researchers. this grant opportunity is being administered by nhmrc on behalf of the australian government department of health. further information on the medical research future fund is available from the department of health website.