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The Health sector which delivers these innovations is diverse and covers a wide range of business activities. Innovate UK Business Connect covers the whole sector by focusing on the broad sub sectors of Medicines, Medical Technology and Digital Health. The logic behind this focus is that each of the sub-sectors is a significant sector in its own right and has distinct characteristics. The Health team at Innovate UK Business Connect has considerable experience of working in these sub-sectors and of driving cross-sector working to facilitate positive change.
Our Medimap provides a dynamic representation of the UK’s end-to-end medicines supply chain covering organisations involved in the discovery, development and manufacture of medicines, as well as those supporting the sector.
Our Health Funding Map, developed with the BioIndustry Association (BIA), will help in the navigation of the complicated world of medical and health innovation funding. You can find links to, details of, and further information on many funding schemes covering a wide variety of health areas.
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Work-related digital innovations for individuals with poor mental health
Opens: 09/10/2024 Closes: 13/11/2024
Up to £200k each for digital innovations to help people remain in work, return to work, or gain employment.
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Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D
Opens: 02/09/2024 Closes: 16/10/2024
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £15 million to develop innovative solutions to health, and healthcare, challenges.
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Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation: Collaborative R&D
Opens: 30/08/2024 Closes: 16/10/2024
Innovate UK and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will invest up to £15m to support sustainable technologies for medicines manufacturing.
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CRACK IT 2024 Challenge 48: Wings of Change
Opens: 23/08/2024 Closes: 04/11/2024
The aim of this Challenge is to develop new approaches to assess avian toxicity for chemical screening and environmental risk assessment.
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PACE: 2024 Diagnostic Innovations
Opens: 26/09/2024 Closes: 30/10/2024
PACE (Pathways to Antimicrobial Clinical Efficacy) aims to accelerate early-stage translational innovation to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
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Biomedical Catalyst: Accelerating Femtech
Opens: 09/09/2024 Closes: 13/10/2024
Commercial help and funding for early-stage companies, university spinouts and entrepreneurial-minded academics focused on women’s health.
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Related Events and Recordings
Tue
3
Sep
2024
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme Engagement Events
11.00 - 13.00 | Across UK and online
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Tue
17
Sep
2024
Healthy Ageing – Funding and Investment Opportunities Snapshot Webinar
14.00 - 15.00 | Online
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Thu
25
Jul
2024
Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme Information Webinar
11.00 - 12.00 GMT | Online
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Tue
18
Jun
2024
Achieving Sustainable Medicines: Driving Research and Innovation for Future Medicines Manufacturing
09.00 - 18.00 | London
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Related News
22/08/2024
Biomedical Catalyst funding to boost healthcare innovation
Thirty projects are to receive a share of £17.8 million funding from Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst. This will bring them a step closer to translating their ideas into products and therapies for patients, and commercialisation.
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24/07/2024
£3.2m funding awarded to advance early-stage healthcare innovation
Thirty-three companies, which took part in Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst pilot accelerators, have been awarded funding to further develop their innovative projects.
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08/05/2024
ME, chronic fatigue syndrome and long Covid project receives Innovate UK funding
PrecisionLife has received an Advancing Precision Medicine grant from Innovate UK to investigate the causes of myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and long Covid.
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16/05/2024
Project to detect hidden signs of osteoporosis gets Innovate UK funding
Naitive Technologies has secured funding from Innovate UK’s Advancing Precision Medicine programme to develop its technology which aims to find patients at risk of osteoporosis during routine, otherwise unrelated, hip or pelvis X-rays.
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Related programmes
Transforming Medicines Manufacturing
Innovate UK’s Transforming Medicines Manufacturing programme aims to drive the de-risking and adoption of highly innovative flexible, agile and scalable manufacturing technologies through a culture of collaboration that will drive the growth of this critically important manufacturing sector.
Biomedical Catalyst
Helps transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses.
Healthy Ageing Community of Practice
The Healthy Ageing Community of Practice is a collaborative learning community for businesses, social ventures, researchers, investors and policymakers to connect and share knowledge and insights in relation to healthy ageing.
UK-Kenya Health Global Innovation Network
This Global Innovation Network shatters knowledge silos and ignites collaborative action. We bridge the gap between cutting-edge UK expertise and Kenyan ingenuity, co-creating accessible, affordable solutions to conquer Kenya’s cancer challenges.
Phage Innovation Network
Driving innovation in the regulation and development of phage-based technologies for applications across multiple sectors, ensuring the UK maintains its strong stance on tackling antimicrobial resistance and solidifies its position as a world leader in phage research.
Medimap: End-to-end medicines supply chain map
Medimap is a new interactive reference tool for the UK medicines sector, mapping and categorising over 3,000 sites of organisations engaged in or supporting the end-to-end supply chain for medicines.
Health Funding Map
The map was developed by Innovate UK Business Connect and the BioIndustry Association (BIA) with the help of a wide range of funders. It helps in the navigation of the complicated world of health innovation funding.