Advancing precision medicine: Round 2

To lead a project your organisation must:

• be a UK registered business of any size
• be a UK registered research and technology organisation (RTO)
• collaborate with other UK registered organisations

You must be or involve at least one grant-claiming micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME).

If the lead organisation is an RTO it must collaborate with at least 2 businesses (one SME, and one business of any size).

Academic institutions cannot lead.

To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK registered:

• business of any size
• academic institution
• charity
• not for profit
• public sector organisation
• research and technology organisation (RTO)

Public sector organisations include NHS or National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) organisations. For example, an Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) or Medtech and In vitro diagnostics Co-operative (MIC) or equivalent in the devolved administrations.

Any one business or research and technology organisation (RTO) can lead on 1 application and can be included as a collaborator in a further 2 applications.

If a business is not leading any application, it can collaborate in up to 3 applications.

If an RTO is not leading an application, they can be a collaborator in any number of applications.

Other organisations can collaborate on any number of applications.

Your project must:

• have total costs between £500,000 and £1 million
• start by 1 December 2023
• end by 30 November 2025
• last between 18 months and 24 months
• carry out all of its project work in the UK
• intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

The aim of this competition is to award innovation projects that focus on novel digital and data-enabled tools to:

• more accurately diagnose conditions and stratify patients to the most appropriate treatments
• increase the application of integrated and multi-modal approaches to determine risk and diagnosis and to predict prognostic outcomes.

Your project must demonstrate how it addresses an unmet clinical need or responds to NHS demand signalling.

Your proposal can include:

• experimental evaluation, within a clinical environment
• prototyping
• product development planning
• intellectual property protection
• a demonstration of clinical utility and effectiveness
• regulatory planning

We encourage proposals for common chronic condition areas particularly:

• oncology
• cardiovascular disease
• musculoskeletal conditions
• respiratory disease

Specific themes

Your project can focus on one or more of the following:

• integrating clinical data sets or multi-omic data sources
• development of artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms and clinical decision-making tools to improve early detection, risk prediction, diagnosis, patient stratification, targeted treatments or prognostic outcomes
• identification of digital markers, potential targets or data-derived phenotypes to stratify patients to more effective therapies

An online briefing event will be held at 2pm on 18th May 2023: click here to register for a place.

If you want help to find a project partner, contact Innovate UK KTN’s Health team.