Snow Fellowships

Key dates for Snow Fellowships 2025

Proposals open with Snow Medical: 31 March 2025
Please submit the Internal Expressions of Interest (EOI) form and CV to your Faculty/Institute: Deadlines are determined locally to support EOI form preparation
Faculty/Institute Shortlisted EOIs due to UQ Research Office: 23 April 2025
UQ Shortlisted EOIs due to UQ Research Office: 12 May 2025
UQ Shortlisted EOIs due to Snow Medical: 22 May 2025

Overview

The Snow Fellowships target emerging global research leaders who demonstrate the potential to drive, manage and influence the next generation of health and medical innovation. Up to $8 million over eight years is provided to support outstanding mid-career researchers in establishing high-impact, multidisciplinary biomedical research programs. Open to mid-career candidates across medicine, science, and bioengineering, the scheme funds lab setup, salaries, project costs, and leadership development. Applications from researchers relocating or returning to Australia from overseas are encouraged.

How to apply

1) Expression of Interest (EOI) process

The 2025 Fellowship round consists of a three-stage process - EOI, invitation to submit a full application and, for successful applicants at the full application stage, an invitation to attend an interview with the Snow Medical Scientific Research and Assessment Committee.

Step 1: Complete the UQ Expression of Interest form

Familiarise yourself with the key Snow Medical and UQ documentation.
Complete the UQ Internal EOI form and full CV and submit it to your Faculty or Institute.

Step 2: Internal review and ranking

UQ EOIs will be reviewed and shortlisted by Faculty/Institute panels and submitted to UQ R&I.
UQ EOIs will be reviewed and shortlisted by UQ R&I central panel.
Applicants will be advised of internal review outcomes.

Step 3: Complete Snow Medical Expression of Interest form

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete the Snow Medical EOI form.
UQ R&I will provide review and feedback.

Step 4: Final submission

Completed Snow Medical EOIs will be submitted to Snow Medical by UQ R&I.

2) Full Application process

Snow Medical will notify applicants of the EOI outcomes and invite successful applicants to submit full applications in early August. Review of full applications are due to UQ R&I by 4 September 2025. Full applications are due to Snow Medical on 2 October 2025.

3) Interview process

Snow Medical will notify applicants of full application outcomes and invite successful applicants to interview in early December 2025. Applicants will be interviewed in early February 2026. Fellowships will be publicly announced in late March 2026.

Readership and researcher support

Before applying, we recommend you:

Contact your faculty or institute research manager for advice on peer readership programs.
Join the UQ R&I Mailer to stay up to date with round developments.
Access the UQ R&I Grants Library, a helpful resource of past successful proposals.
Watch the 2024 UQR&I NHMRC Development Grants information session