Medicines
The medicines sector is characterised by a few large pharmaceutical companies and a large number of SME biotech companies.
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Support for companies of all sizes is provided by the Health Team across the sector but particularly linked with the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and advanced therapeutics. Members of the Health Team are closely aligned with the Medicines Manufacturing Industry Partnership and the Bioindustry Association.
Innovate UK KTN also organises the Medicines Manufacturing Challenge Community. Its core goal is to accelerate the outcomes from the medicines manufacturing ISCF Challenge which has seen £146m invested in different projects, including the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre and Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres.
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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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Global Business Innovation Programme in Sweden - Advanced Therapies
Opens: 16/08/2023 Closes: 22/09/2023
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious companies developing Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) to participate in the Global Business Innovation Programme with a market visit to Sweden.
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CRACK IT challenge 45: CrossDART
Opens: 11/08/2023 Closes: 26/10/2023
This Challenge aims to reliably predict early or surrogate indicators of teratogenicity of pharmaceutical drug candidates in vitro.
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Programmes related to Medicines

Biomedical Catalyst
Helps transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses.

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.

Medicines Manufacturing Challenge Community
A now-completed programme that supported manufacturers of medicines in order to grow the UK economy – replaced by the Medicines Manufacturing programme.