{"id":80086,"date":"2017-03-28T07:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=beacdf63b9e91d6d2a87cde3ed03927c"},"modified":"2017-03-28T07:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:41:17","slug":"news-story-tackling-healthcare-challenges-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=80086","title":{"rendered":"News story: Tackling healthcare challenges: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Biomedical Catalyst has up to \u00a312 million to support innovative healthcare technologies and processes that could help to prevent disease or better manage and treat chronic health conditions.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"providing-effective-and-efficient-healthcare\">Providing effective and efficient healthcare<\/h2>\n<p>Healthcare costs are rising across the world as a growing and ageing population brings with it an increasing burden of disease.<\/p>\n<p>There is a greater need than ever to provide effective and efficient ways of meeting this healthcare challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Biomedical Catalyst supports innovative solutions to healthcare challenges. It is funded by Innovate UK, the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/\">Medical Research Council<\/a> and <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scottish-enterprise.com\/\">Scottish Enterprise<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-biomedical-catalyst-an-evaluation-report\">Read an independent review of the Biomedical Catalyst programme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"a-range-of-projects\">A range of projects<\/h2>\n<p>We are seeking projects across a range of fields including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stratified healthcare (both therapy and diagnostic components)<\/li>\n<li>advanced therapies (cell and gene therapy)<\/li>\n<li>diagnostics<\/li>\n<li>digital health<\/li>\n<li>enabling medical technologies and devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Funding is available for late-stage awards and could be for projects including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>initial human proof-of-concept studies<\/li>\n<li>demonstration of clinical utility and effectiveness<\/li>\n<li>demonstration of safety and efficacy (including phase I and II clinical trials)<\/li>\n<li>developing production mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>prototyping<\/li>\n<li>market testing<\/li>\n<li>intellectual property protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">See how Innovate UK supports innovation in health and life sciences.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 30 March 2017, and the deadline for registration is midday on 31 May 2017<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by an SME either working alone or with others<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size from \u00a3250,000 to \u00a34 million and to last between 12 and 36 months<\/li>\n<li>businesses could attract up to 70% of their project costs<\/li>\n<li>a briefing event for potential applicants takes place on 4 April 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-biomedical-catalyst-2017-round-2-late-stage\">Find out more about this competition.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of up to \u00a312 million to develop innovative ideas that will help to detect, manage and treat disease.<\/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\/80086"}],"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=80086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}