Summary

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million to develop innovative healthcare products, technologies and processes.

The aim of this competition is to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of an innovative scientific idea or carry out a technical evaluation through to proof of concept in a model system. Your project must focus on the development of a product or process that is an innovative solution to a health and care challenge

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

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Eligibility

Your project must:

·       have total eligible costs between £50,000 and £1million

·       start on 1 April 2022

·       end by 31 March 2024

·       last between 3 months and 24 months

·       carry out all of its project work in the UK

·       intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

Academic involvement is capped at 50%of the total eligible costs.

For feasibility studies and industrial research projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:

·       up to 70%if you are a micro or small organisation

·       up to 60%if you are a medium-sized organisation

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 eligible project costs.

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