{"id":66700,"date":"2016-01-21T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a537038a6ef2c26f298fe374ca908a33"},"modified":"2016-01-21T16:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:53:01","slug":"news-story-hearing-loss-and-biological-systems-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=66700","title":{"rendered":"News story: Hearing loss and biological systems: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Ministry of Defence\u2019s Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) is to invest up to \u00a31.2m million in 2 SBRI (Small Business Research Initiative) competitions.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"hearing-loss-competition\">Hearing loss competition<\/h3>\n<p>Businesses can apply for a share of up to \u00a3500,000 in fully funded development contracts for proof-of-concept research into solutions that monitor, diagnose, treat and restore noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"synthetic-biology-competition\">Synthetic biology competition<\/h3>\n<p>A further \u00a3750,000 is available in fully funded business contracts for proof-of-concept research into the use of synthetic biology to develop next-generation materials that could:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>be used in body armour <\/li>\n<li>act as self-healing materials <\/li>\n<li>demonstrate improved resistance to corrosion <\/li>\n<li>act as novel adhesives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Up to \u00a31 million will be available to develop the best ideas further in a second phase of each competition.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"information-on-both-competitions\">Information on both competitions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>both competitions are open for applications and close at 5pm on 21 April 2016<\/li>\n<li>the competitions are for 100% funded contracts and are open to all organisations that can demonstrate a route to market for their solution<\/li>\n<li>phase 1 contracts are expected to be between \u00a350,000 and \u00a3100,000 and to last up to 9 months<\/li>\n<li>applications must be made online to CDE<\/li>\n<li>briefing events and webinars for both competitions will be held in February and March<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cde-themed-competition-detect-and-treat-hearing-loss-and-tinnitus\/competition-summary-detect-and-treat-hearing-loss-and-tinnitus\">Find out more about the hearing loss competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cde-themed-competition-synthetic-biology-for-novel-materials\/competition-summary-synthetic-biology-for-novel-materials#summary\">Find out more about the synthetic biology competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Defence is to invest in SBRI competitions seeking new treatments for hearing loss and new materials from biological systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}