{"id":94517,"date":"2018-08-02T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9fabc85f1a7490235817bb751dde9b57"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:00:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T10:00:04","slug":"news-story-new-ideas-for-tackling-disease-apply-for-business-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=94517","title":{"rendered":"News story: New ideas for tackling disease: apply for business funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>There is up to \u00a315 million for new healthcare technologies, products and processes that support the most innovative opportunities in the life sciences sectors.<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for ideas to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prevent and proactively manage chronic health conditions<\/li>\n<li>better detect and diagnose disease earlier, to create improved outcomes for patients<\/li>\n<li>develop new, tailored treatments for disease that offer potential cures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The funding is available through the Biomedical Catalyst, which is a partnership between Innovate UK and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.ac.uk\/\">Medical Research Council<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 competitions in this funding round, one for primer awards and another for late-stage projects.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"support-for-many-health-projects\">Support for many health projects<\/h2>\n<p>The Biomedical Catalyst supports projects from any sector or discipline including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>precision medicine<\/li>\n<li>advanced therapies, such as gene and cell therapies<\/li>\n<li>diagnostics<\/li>\n<li>digital health<\/li>\n<li>medical technologies and devices<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Organisations that have received funding in previous rounds include <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.entia.co\/\">Entia<\/a>, which has received more than \u00a31 million from Innovate UK, much of it through the Biomedical Catalyst.<\/p>\n<p>This has allowed it to work with <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk\/\">The Royal Marsden Hospital<\/a> to develop a hand-held blood testing kit that can be used at home by chemotherapy patients to help them better manage their treatment and limit the number of unnecessary visits they need to make to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The system \u2013 which has won an <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axappphealthcare.co.uk\/healthtechandyou\/2017-award\/axa-ppp-health-tech-and-you-challenge\/\">AXA PPP Health Tech &amp; You Challenge<\/a> award \u2013 is also likely to have other applications outside cancer care because blood counts are so widely used in hospitals and GP practices.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/zmTvcL4fRMA\">Entia &amp; Royal Marsden Hospital: developing blood testing kit for chemotherapy patients<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"primer-awards\">Primer awards<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"technical-evaluation-through-to-proof-of-concept\">Technical evaluation through to proof of concept<\/h3>\n<p>Up to \u00a35 million is available for \u2018primer\u2019 projects, which cover a technical evaluation of an idea through to proof of concept.<\/p>\n<p>They could include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>experimental evaluation at laboratory scale<\/li>\n<li>initial demonstration using in vitro and in vivo models. This should not include human clinical trials<\/li>\n<li>exploring potential production mechanisms<\/li>\n<li>early-stage prototyping<\/li>\n<li>product development planning<\/li>\n<li>intellectual property protection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 6 August 2018, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 3 October 2018<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME), working alone or with other SMEs or research organisations<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size from \u00a3200,000 to \u00a31.5 million and to last between 1 and 2 years<\/li>\n<li>you can register for a briefing event on 7 August 2018, where you can find out more about the competition and making a quality application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/215\/overview\">Find out more about the competition for primer awards and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"late-stage-awards\">Late-stage awards<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"testing-a-well-developed-concept\">Testing a well-developed concept<\/h3>\n<p>Up to \u00a310 million is available for late-stage projects. These are projects that test a well-developed concept in an environment that is relevant to its use.<\/p>\n<p>These could include:<\/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, which may include phase I and phase 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<h3 id=\"competition-information-1\">Competition information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition opens on 6 August 2018, and the deadline for applications is at midday on 3 October 2018<\/li>\n<li>projects must be led by an SME, working alone or with other SMEs or research organisations<\/li>\n<li>we expect projects to range in size from \u00a3200,000 to \u00a34 million and to last between 1 and 3 years<\/li>\n<li>applicants that meet the quality threshold will be invited to interview in January 2019 to present their ideas<\/li>\n<li>you can register for a briefing event on 7 August 2018, where you can find out more about the competition and making a quality application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/214\/overview\">Find out more about the competition for late-stage awards and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses can apply for a share of \u00a315 million to better detect, prevent, manage and treat disease and chronic health conditions.<\/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\/94517"}],"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=94517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}