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Innovation in Health and Life
Sciences - Round 2
The secret is out, Innovate UKÂs highly anticipated Innovation in Health and Life Sciences competition Round 2, is due to open 6th Feb 2017.
The aim of this competition will be to stimulate innovation in health and life sciences (H&LS). Projects must align with at least one of the following Innovate UK priority areas to:
- increase yield, quality and sustainability in agriculture and food production
- support advanced therapies (cell and gene therapies), precision medicine or preclinical technologies
- develop bioscience techniques and capabilities that have the potential to improve healthcare and/or agriculture and food production in the future
There will be two options to apply into this competition. These are dependent on the size and length of your project. referred to as streams.
- Stream 1 - for projects under 12 months and under £100,000
- Stream 2 - for projects over 12 months or over £100,000
You could get up to 70% of your eligible project costs if you are an SME.
- Registration deadline - 5th April 2017
- Application deadline - 12th April 2017
We will be posting more information about this call on our website, in the mean time, if this sounds like a project youÂre already working on, get ahead of the game and get in touch.
Take a look below at more funding available in in this sector
Biomedical Catalyst 2017 Â Round 1
Biomedical Catalyst 2017 Â Round 1
Receive up to £1.5m
The competition aim is to develop innovative healthcare technologies and processes that will help provide:
- 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
The competition has 2 awards:
- feasibility studies award: to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of innovative scientific ideas
- primer award: to conduct a technical evaluation of your idea through to proof of concept in a model system
Other details:
Depending on the award, total project costs range from £200,000 to £1.5m, can last up to 2 years and get up to 70% of your eligible project costs if you are an SME.
- This competition is open
- Competition closes 29th March 2017
For more information, click here.
Vaccines for global epidemics  clinical
This competition aims to support the clinical development of candidate vaccines against 12 diseases. For the full list, click here.
Receive up to £3m
The competition will support the clinical development of candidate vaccines up to and including phase IIb trials. The funders will also consider co-funding phase III trials, either with industry or other philanthropic or government funders.?
Funding and project details
The competition is a single stage. It covers carrying out clinical development of vaccines up to and including phase IIb trials.
- individual contracts to be valued up to £3m
- projects should last between 24 and 36 months
This competition is aimed at supporting candidate vaccines that are ready for, or close to moving into phase I clinical trials. This can include good laboratory practice toxicology or manufacturing activity to support the proposed clinical trial.
- This competition is open
- Competition closes: 19th April 2017
For more information, click here.
To view all current funding competitions, click here.
If you would like to discuss any of the funding competitions featured here or on our website, please get in touch.
