Project Focus Areas:

• Disease prevention and management.

• Early detection and diagnosis for enhanced patient outcomes.
• Tailored treatments for disease alteration or potential cures.
• Healthcare delivery transformation.
• Digital health tech.
• Consumer-driven self-care.

This is a competitive grant application process with an emphasis on commercial and technical feasibility.

Funding Type:

Grant

Project Size:

Total project costs should range between £150,000 and £4 million. Grants cannot surpass £2 million.

Proposal Elements:

Projects should maintain the highest animal welfare standards. They can encompass:

• Lab-scale experimental evaluation.
• Proof of concept or safety via in vitro/in vivo models.
• Production mechanism exploration.

• Prototyping.
• Product development planning.
• Intellectual property safeguarding.
• Clinical utility and efficacy demonstrations, including phase 1 and 2 clinical trials.
• Regulatory planning.

Portfolio Approach:

A variety of projects across diverse fields, technologies, research categories, markets, and locations are sought. Grant requests over £500,000 will be selected based on this approach. Those under £500,000 will be chosen using a top-down method.

Specific Themes:

The project can be rooted in numerous health or healthcare sectors:

• Biosciences, advanced therapies.

• Diagnostics, medical tech, devices.
• Digital health, independent living, wellbeing.
• Precision medicine, preclinical tech, drug discovery.
• Therapeutic development, data-driven health.
• Consumer and preventative health.

Research Categories:

Funding will be provided for industrial research and experimental development projects.

Exclusions:

Projects that won't be funded:

• Fundamental research or feasibility projects.

• Unrelated to human life sciences.
• Products already in the market.
• Laboratory accreditation projects.
• Those compromising animal welfare.
• Projects dependent on export performance or domestic input usage.