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Health is critical to our wellbeing as individuals, plays a key role in societal and economic advances, and presents many opportunities for environmental impact. Innovations in health & care allow us to alleviate suffering, increase quality of life and life expectancy, and manage the needs of a changing and ageing population.
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The Health sector which delivers these innovations is diverse and covers a wide range of business activities. Innovate UK KTN 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 KTN 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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Related Opportunities
Launchpad: health technology, West Yorkshire
Opens: 30/10/2023 Closes: 13/12/2023
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2m to grow activities in the health technology innovation cluster in West Yorkshire.
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Launchpad: life & health sciences, Northern Ireland
Opens: 30/10/2023 Closes: 13/12/2023
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £2m for business led projects in the life and health sciences innovation cluster in Northern Ireland.
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Transforming Cancer Therapeutics
Opens: 15/11/2023 Closes: 24/01/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £10m to develop next generation immunotherapies for cancer or life-changing treatments for paediatric cancers.
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Global Business Innovation Programme in Boston and New York - FemTech
Opens: 21/11/2023 Closes: 26/01/2024
Companies in the FemTech sector are invited to join a market visit to New York and Boston, including the Femtech and Consumer Innovation Summit.
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Global Business Innovation Programme in Switzerland - Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)
Opens: 07/11/2023 Closes: 12/12/2023
Companies developing innovations to combat Antimicrobial Resistance are invited to join a market visit including the 8th AMR Conference in Switzerland.
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BIOREME Study Group: Applications of Mathematics in Respiratory Medicine
Opens: 27/11/2023 Closes: 26/01/2024
BIOREME invite respiratory medicine specialists to submit a challenge for mathematical modelling.
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11/07/2023
Help us shape the future of innovation!
Innovate UK is looking to expand their assessor pool to review applications in the Health and Life Sciences area. Join us and be part of a vibrant community of experts dedicated to driving innovation forward.
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02/05/2023
Pilot accelerators launched to support the development of early-stage health and life science innovation in the UK
We are pleased to announce our pilot accelerators, in collaboration with the Medical Research Council (MRC), which will allow spinouts, start-ups, and entrepreneurial minded academics to test their ideas and develop concepts with support from key stakeholders from the innovation ecosystem.
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28/04/2023
Exploring Microbiome Innovation: Insights from the Microbiome One Health Conference
Over 100 microbiome researchers and innovators gathered in Glasgow in March 2023 for the sold-out Microbiome One Health Conference, organised by members of the Innovate UK KTN Microbiome Innovation Advisory Board and the Health and AgriFood teams.
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Programmes related to Health
Biomedical Catalyst
Helps transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses.
Health Funding Map
The map was developed by Innovate UK KTN 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.
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.