Deadline: 26-Aug-21
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £18 million to develop innovative healthcare products, technologies and processes. This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.
Your project can address:
- 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
The aim of this early and late-stage competition is to enable businesses to create a data package that can support the further development of their products.
The project can include:
- experimental evaluation (at laboratory scale)
- use of in vitro and in vivo models to evaluate proof of concept or safety
- exploring potential production mechanisms
- prototyping
- product development planning
- intellectual property protection
- demonstrating of clinical utility and effectiveness
- demonstrating of safety and efficacy (including phase 1 and 2 clinical trials)
- regulatory planning
Your project must focus on the development of a product or process that is an innovative solution to a defined health or care challenge.
Themes
Your project can focus on any health and care sector or discipline. They particularly welcome applications that support innovation in the following areas:
- child health technologies
- innovations that support clinical trials in the UK
- biomedical innovations that combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance
Your project can align with one or more of the following:
- medical technologies and devices
- stratified healthcare
- advanced therapies (gene and cell therapies)
- digital health
- drug discovery
- diagnostics
Funding Information
- Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £250,000 and £4 million.
- start from 1 April 2022
- last between 12 months and 36 months
Eligibility Criteria
- To lead a project or work alone your organisation must:
- be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME)
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must:
- be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organisation, or research technology organisation (RTO)
- carry out your project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- be invited by the lead organisation
- Large companies can be collaborators but will not be able to claim grant funding.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/922/overview