Funding Opportunities
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Explore available funding opportunities below.
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Closing date (subject to change): 05/12/2024
Overview: The i4i Product Development Awards (PDA) support collaborative research and development projects of medical devices, in vitro diagnostic devices and high-impact patient-focused digital health technologies for use in the NHS or social care systems.
PDA are researcher-led and aim to de-risk innovations, supporting early product development through to real-world evaluations, to make innovations more attractive for follow-on funding and commercial investment.
The expected focus of a project funded by PDA is one or more of the following:
- Product development required to enable technologies for clinical use or use in social care
- Clinical development of a laboratory-validated technology
- Real-world evaluations to accelerate the development and uptake of innovative products, which already have demonstrated safety and efficacy
The aim is to achieve benefit to patients and end users, de-risk technologies and make them attractive to follow-on funders, investors and buyers, in particular NHS commissioners and national guidance bodies
Value: £400,000 – £1,500,000
Closing date: 12/12/2024
Overview:
This funding opportunity is intended to support the progression of basic and fundamental research towards application and impact within one of the following three challenges:
- Improving population health and prevention of ill health
- Transforming prediction and early diagnosis
- Discovering and accelerating the development of new interventions
UKRI are looking for applications which will advance engineering and physical sciences research towards application and impact in an area of unmet healthcare need during the lifetime of the proposal. Applications will be co-developed and co-delivered with clinical or healthcare professionals, industry partners and public and patient contributors to maximise impact and navigate the translation pathway.
Projects should ensure the research addresses an unmet health need or offers significant added value over current or alternative healthcare solutions.
Research projects funded through this funding opportunity are expected to generate a range of outputs that make significant contributions to delivering impact within our challenge areas.
Value: £100,000 – £2 million
Open date: 14/10/2024
Closing date: 13/01/2025
Overview:
Launchpad is a part-time, free, four-month bespoke support package that helps passionate people to de-risk, validate and pitch dementia innovation product ideas. Launchpad 2024/25 will kick off in February 2025, with applications opening on the 14th of October 2024. This round is particularly looking for product ideas addressing the challenges around the hospital journey for people living with dementia.
We have a broad focus around hospitalisation that includes ideas to:
- Reduce unnecessary admissions
- Make hospital more dementia friendly
- Support transitions back into the community
- To support the carers and loved one’s of those in hospital
- To address system level challenges with healthcare management and process
Although people living with dementia may not by the primary customer or end user of your product, we will encourage the co-design of all products with those living with dementia to ensure they are dementia friendly.