Deadline: 1-Mar-23
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges.
Focus Areas
- Your project can focus on:
- Disease prevention and proactive management of health and chronic conditions
- Earlier and better detection and diagnosis of disease, leading to better patient outcomes
- Tailored treatments that either change the underlying disease or offer potential cures
- Transforming the delivery of healthcare
- The development of digital health technologies
- This list is not intended to be exhaustive.
- The Industry-led research and development (R&D) stream of the Biomedical Catalyst programme supports pre-market R&D projects. Applicants must be able to demonstrate existing evidence of commercial and technical feasibility.
- Applications must show how they will improve the competitiveness and productivity of at least one UK SME involved in the project.
Specific themes
- Your project can focus on health or a healthcare sector or discipline:
- Biosciences
- Advanced therapies (gene and cell therapies)
- Diagnostic, medical technology and devices
- Digital health
- Independent living and wellbeing
- Precision medicine
- Preclinical technologies and drug target discovery
- Therapeutic and medicine development
- This list is not intended to be exhaustive.
Funding Information
- Your project’s total costs must be between £150,000 and £4 million. The total grant cannot exceed £2 million.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your project must:
- Not exceed a grant request of £2 million
- Have at least 50% of the total project costs shared by the SMEs, if collaborative
- Start by 1 October 2023
- End by 30 September 2026
- Last between 6 months and 36 months
- Carry out all of its project work in the UK
- Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- You must only include eligible project costs in your application. If you have requested an overall grant of over £500,000, and your online application is successful at written assessment, you may be invited to attend an interview.
- Under current restrictions, this competition will not fund any procurement, commercial, business development or supply chain activity with any Russian and Belarusian entity as lead, partner or subcontractor. This includes any goods or services originating from a Russian and Belarusian source.
- If you have not requested approval or your application has not been approved by them, you will be made ineligible. Your application will then not be sent for assessment.
Lead organisation
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).
- More information on the different types of organisation can be found in their Funding rules.
- Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
Project team
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:
- Business of any size
- Academic institution
- Charity
- Not for profit
- public sector organisation
- Research and technology organisation (RTO)
- Each partner organisation must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Once accepted, partners will be asked to login or to create an account and enter their own project costs into the Innovation Funding Service.
- Partners must accept terms and conditions (T&Cs) and complete the subsidy question in order for the application to be submitted.
- To be an eligible collaboration, the lead and at least one other organisation must apply for funding when entering their costs into the application.
Ineligible
- They are not funding projects that:
- Are feasibility projects or fundamental research
- Are not related to human life sciences
- Focus on a product that is already on the market
- Focus on laboratory accreditation
- Are conducted to anything less than the highest standards of animal welfare
- They cannot fund projects that are:
- Dependent on export performance, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it exports a certain quantity of bread to another country
- Dependent on domestic inputs usage, for example giving a subsidy to a baker on the condition that it uses 50% UK flour in their product
For more information, visit Innovate UK.
