The fourth theme of the Health Innovation Challenge Fund is Smart Surgery: Innovative technologies or interventions to reduce, replace or refine invasive surgical procedures. The Health Innovation Challenge Fund is a five-year parallel funding partnership between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions, and facilitate their
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The HSC R&D Division and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Trainees Coordinating Centre are inviting applications for research fellowships. Fellowship Awards for Research Capacity Development was last modified: March 28th, 2011 by hscinnovations
Read more ...Invest Northern Ireland has announced that it will entertain applications for a small number of Proof of Concept projects in autumn 2010. The Proof of Concept programme supports the pre-commercialisation of leading-edge technologies emerging from Northern Ireland’s research organisations. The financial assistance provided by the programme helps researchers to export their ideas and inventions from
Read more ...The new National Institute for Health Research Invention for Innovation (i4i) programme was launched on 25th October 2010 and now consists of two funding streams – for early and late stage product development – to simplify the application process. The new i4i programme aspires to advance the translation of healthcare technologies for increased patient benefit through guided
Read more ...The Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS) is a new, rigorously-assessed, funding scheme set up by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to help strengthen the translation of fundamental research towards patient benefit. It does not fund discoveries of new causes or risk factors of disease, biomarkers, drug targets, biomaterials or research tools, but takes these as starting
Read more ...HSC Innovations encourages members of staff in the HSC trusts to consider applying for the Wellcome Trust Translation Awards. Translation Awards are response-mode funding designed to bridge the funding gap in the commercialisation of new technologies in the biomedical area. Wellcome Trust Translation Awards was last modified: March 28th, 2011 by hscinnovations
Read more ...The Health Innovation Challenge Fund is a five-year parallel funding partnership between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions, and facilitate their development for the benefit of patients in the NHS and beyond. Priorities of the programme are: Health Innovation Challenge Fund –
Read more ...The Technology Strategy Board is to invest up to £5 million in innovative research and development projects using genomics-based technologies. This initiative seeks to highlight the opportunities created by the decrease in cost, and increase in speed, in high-throughput sequencing technology. £5m Funding for Genomics Technologies was last modified: March 28th, 2011 by hscinnovations
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