Deadline: 7-Oct-20
The UK registered organizations can apply for a share of up to £30 million to develop innovative healthcare products, technologies, and processes.
This funding is from Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation.
Scope
The aim of this early and late-stage competition is to enable companies to create a data package that can support the subsequent testing of their products or carry out evaluations in a clinical setting or other relevant environments.
Testing 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 clinical utility and effectiveness
- demonstrating safety and efficacy (including phase 1 and 2 clinical trials)
- regulatory planning
Specific Themes
The project must focus on any health and care sector or discipline. The services 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
You must align your project to one of the following innovation areas:
- medical technologies and devices
- stratified healthcare
- advanced therapies (gene and cell therapies)
- digital health
- drug discovery
- diagnostics
Project size
- Your project’s total eligible costs must be between £250,000 and £4 million.
Eligibility Criteria
The project must:
- have total eligible costs between £250,000 and £4 million
- start on 1 March 2021
- end by 29 February 2024
- last between 12 months and 36 months
Lead Organization
To lead a project or work alone your organization must:
- be a UK registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise SME or a research and technology organization (RTO)
- carry out its project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- If the lead organization is an RTO you must collaborate with at least one SME.
- Academic institutions cannot lead or work alone.
Project Team
To collaborate with the lead, your organization must:
- be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, charity, not-for-profit, public sector organization or RTO
- carry out your project work in the UK
- intend to exploit the results from or in the UK
- be invited by the lead organization
- Each partner organization must be invited into the Innovation Funding Service by the lead to collaborate on a project. Partners must enter their own project costs.
- Large companies will not be able to claim grant funding.
For more information, visit https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/623/overview