Health
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
Canada-UK: Biomanufacturing of Biologics and Advanced Therapies
Opens: 26/06/2023 Closes: 17/10/2023
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £3.5m to collaborate with Canadian SMEs on joint R&D to innovate in biomanufacturing biologics and advanced therapies.
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Flexible, agile, scalable and sustainable medicines manufacturing
Opens: 26/09/2023 Closes: 22/11/2023
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5m for development and implementation of technologies for medicines development and manufacture.
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Biomedical Catalyst 2023 Round 2: Industry-led R&D
Opens: 20/09/2023 Closes: 08/11/2023
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £20 million to develop innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges.
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Medicines Made Smarter: Data, AI, Robotics and the future of medicines manufacturing
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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.