Biomedical Catalyst 2022 (Round 2): Industry-led R&D in the UK

Deadline: 12-Oct-22

Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation is seeking applications to invest up to £25 million in projects to support UK registered businesses to develop innovative solutions to address significant health or healthcare challenges.

Aims

The aim of this industry-led R&D competition is to support the development of innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges.

Innovate UK will only support innovation projects conducted to the highest standards of animal welfare.

Your 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.
• A demonstration of clinical utility and effectiveness.
• A demonstration of safety and efficacy (including phase 1 and 2 clinical trials).
• Regulatory planning.

Objectives

The Biomedical Catalyst (BMC) has 3 key objectives:

• Deliver growth to the UK life sciences sector.
• Deliver innovative life sciences products and services into healthcare more quickly and effectively.
• Provide support to academically and commercially led R&D.

Focus Area

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.

Themes

Your project can focus on any health or healthcare sector or discipline.

The Biomedical Catalyst now incorporates the Digital Health Technology Catalyst and will support digital health projects.

Your project can align with one or more of the following Innovation areas:

• 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
• Data driven health

This list is not intended to be exhaustive.

Funding Information

• Up to £25 million has been allocated to fund innovation projects in this competition. Funding will be in the form of a grant.
• Your project’s total costs must be between £150,000 and £4 million. The total grant cannot exceed £2 million.

Eligible Project

• Your project must:
  • Have total project costs between £150,000 and £4 million.
  • 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 May 2023.
  • End by 30 April 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.

Eligibility Criteria

• To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered.
• 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.
  • For collaborations, the lead and at least one other organisation must claim funding by entering their costs during the application.
  • Your project can include partners that do not receive any of this competition’s funding, for example non-UK businesses. Their costs will count towards the total project costs.
• Subcontractors
  • Subcontractors are allowed in this competition.
  • Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.
• Number of applications
  • An SME can only lead on one application but can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.

For more information, visit Innovate UK.

For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/1264/overview/43ba9777-1ec8-4cfc-a183-b39d39259141