{"id":95058,"date":"2018-08-28T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=57a2bb5fd468798b1c00bcea27e07afb"},"modified":"2018-08-28T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T08:30:00","slug":"news-story-industrial-strategy-to-boost-medicine-production-new-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=95058","title":{"rendered":"News story: Industrial Strategy to boost medicine production: new funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>UK businesses can apply for a share of up to \u00a38 million for projects that significantly improve the efficiency, effectiveness and scope of medicines manufacture.<\/p>\n<p>The funding is part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/the-uks-industrial-strategy\">government\u2019s modern Industrial Strategy<\/a>. It is provided by <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/ukri.org\/\">UK Research and Innovation<\/a> and delivered through Innovate UK.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"why-medicines-manufacturing-needs-to-go-digital\">Why medicines manufacturing needs to go digital<\/h2>\n<p>Society faces a global challenge in ensuring people everywhere can age healthily. Infrastructure that supports this need has to be efficient and fit for purpose.<\/p>\n<p>For this to happen, there needs to be a major change in the way we manufacture medicines with greater use of digitalisation.<\/p>\n<p>This competition aims to improve manufacture, reduce waste and costs in the medicines supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>It is part of the government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation\">Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund<\/a>. The \u00a3181 million leading-edge healthcare fund is designed to transform how we develop and manufacture medicines and other healthcare products, such as digital technologies.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/industrial-strategy-challenge-fund-joint-research-and-innovation#leading-edge-healthcare\">Find opportunities for businesses and further information on the leading-edge healthcare challenge.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"improving-the-efficiency-of-medicines-manufacturing\">Improving the efficiency of medicines manufacturing<\/h2>\n<p>We are looking for projects that address at least 1 of 3 themes. These are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improve the UK\u2019s capacity and capability to manufacture small-molecule, biological, or cell or gene-based medicines<\/li>\n<li>significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing these medicines<\/li>\n<li>significantly reduce the waste produced while manufacturing them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This could include but is not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improved commercially viable manufacturing processes<\/li>\n<li>methods for the reliable and robust scale-up of novel medicines<\/li>\n<li>increased access to medicines needing just-in-time delivery, such as medicines with a short shelf life<\/li>\n<li>increased yield of active ingredient or final product<\/li>\n<li>lower cost of production and goods<\/li>\n<li>improved integration of ordering and delivery, such as, co-ordinating prescriptions with production scheduling<\/li>\n<li>a reduction in waste, for example, by manufacturing to order rather than to stock<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proposals must also show how the project will increase the productivity, competitiveness, capability or growth of at least one UK business involved.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>this competition opens on 10 September 2018, and the deadline for applications is midday on 3 October 2018<\/li>\n<li>UK businesses can lead a project, working alone or in collaboration with other businesses<\/li>\n<li>total project costs can be between \u00a32 million and \u00a34 million<\/li>\n<li>projects must start by 1 January 2019 and last between 3 and 4 months<\/li>\n<li>you can register to attend an <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ktn-uk.co.uk\/events\/webinar-digitalisation-of-medicines-manufacturing-challenge-fund\">online briefing event<\/a> on 11 September and a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/ktn-uk.co.uk\/events\/digitalisation-of-medicines-manufacturing-challenge-fund-event\">London engagement event<\/a> on 21 September to find out more about the competition and how to make 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\/224\/overview?utm_source=gov.uk&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=medman\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to \u00a38 million is available for businesses to digitise and improve the manufacture of medicines through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.<\/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\/95058"}],"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=95058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95076,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95058\/revisions\/95076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}