With National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator grants announced, which institutions got what for all 2022 programmes is pretty much done

The overall outcome is an improvement on last year – just not a big one. 307 (16.4 per cent) grants were approved, of1 870 applications. This compares with 254 projects approved out of 1722 applications (14.8 per cent) last year.

The success rate for women Chief Investigators is up this year, to 19.2 per cent (166 of 863 applications)

There are 138 funded projects led by men (13.8 per cent of 999 applications).

Last year the success rate for women CIs was 12.9 per cent compared to 16.5 per cent for male Cis.

The winners this year are pretty much the same as they always are, with the big five accounting for close to 70 per cent of funds ($359m of $523m) – add Walter and Eliza Hall’s $26m and the research heavy weights account for nearly three quarters of funding.

Funding, plus success rate per total apps (compared to the 16.4 per cent national average) is Monash U $74.3m (18 per cent), Uni Melbourne $81.4m (22 per cent), UNSW $84.5 (20 per cent), Uni Queensland $42.2m (16 per cent) and Uni Sydney $78.9m (18 per cent).

This is largely in-line with last year,  (Monash U $62.9m, Uni Melbourne $80.4m, UNSW $89.3m, Uni Queensland $70.8m, Uni Sydney $76.2m).