Objectives:

The funded studies should contribute to one or more of the following objectives:

• Explore speculative translational pathways for medicines manufacturing.
• Develop novel and sustainable approaches.
• Investigate disruptive approaches to reduce time from discovery to deployment.
• Consider manufacturability, including scale-up and user needs, from the outset.

Themes:

Proposals should focus on one or more of these themes:

• New Modalities: Scalable, sustainable solutions and technologies.
• Discovery: Techniques for improving drug screening success rates.
• Analytical Capability: Techniques for predicting performance in clinic, discovery, and scale-up.

Environmental sustainability should be a key consideration in projects.

Eligibility:

• Must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for EPSRC funding.
• Projects can last up to two years.

Exclusions:

• Equipment over £10,000 in value is not fundable.

• Proposals related to vaccine research are not within the scope of this call.

Funding Limitation:

• Full Economic Cost (FEC) of the project can be up to £187,500.
• EPSRC will fund 80% of the FEC.

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