Tour de Cure Cancer Research Scholarship

Recipients are required to:
- present their research at the annual meeting of the Surgical Research Society of Australasia (or an agreed equivalent) at least once during, or in the 12 months following, the scholarship period.

Please also refer to:
- the Scholarships and Grants program research scholarship policy (PDF 284.15KB)
- the scholarship  guideline (PDF 113.21KB)

Funding conditions
The scholarship is valued at $125,000. A maximum of $100,000 ($90,000 stipend plus $10,000 departmental maintenance) will be funded from the Tour de Cure Cancer Research Scholarship Corpus. Recipients are required to procure $25,000 ($22,500 stipend plus $2,500 departmental maintenance) from their Research Department. This condition will be waived if the scholar receives additional research funding to the value of, or greater than $25,000. Additional funding would need to include a stipend component to offset the research department's responsibility for paying a percentage of the scholar's stipend.

RACS Fellows, Specialist International Medical Graduates on the pathway to RACS Fellowship (SIMGs) and SET Trainees* may apply.
*SET applicants are ineligible for this scholarship

Your application is to include:
- your career and employment details
- your research proposal including: your project aim and research questions; research objectives; scientific literature references; research design and plan.
- a list of (up to) your five most important publications including their URL / DOI (optional)
- a list of (up to) your five most important conference presentations (optional)
- proposed budget
- names and correct email addresses for two referees (recommenders) – one of whom is your supervisor – who will then receive an invitation to view parts of your online application and provide a recommendation.

Selection is assessed via written application with shortlisted applicants invited to interview.
The selection panel is comprised of representatives of the ANZ Scholarship and Grant Committee and the Board of Tour de Cure.

Awarding
Payment is made directly to the administering institution in one instalment by 1 March in the scholarship year.

Visit Tour de Cure and their Funding Opportunities page.

Please read this Surgical News article about Tour de Cure (PDF 1.12MB). 

The following Surgical News articles feature previous recipients of this scholarship:

Anthony Glover (PDF 1.02MB), 2016 recipient, April 2017 edition
Andrew Gogos (PDF 798.51KB), 2015 recipient, October 2015 edition
Lipi Shukla (PDF 273.56KB), 2014 recipient, April 2016 edition