£10m on offer to aid small firms to develop healthcare technologies

The catalyst is seeking projects across: stratified healthcare, regenerative medicine, diagnostics, digital health, and enabling medical technologies and devices.

The Biomedical Catalyst has up to £10 million available to support the development of healthcare technologies and processes that could help to prevent disease or better treat and manage chronic health conditions.

The catalyst, which is funded by Innovate UK, the Medical Research Council and Scottish Enterprise, is seeking projects across a range of fields including: stratified healthcare, regenerative medicine, diagnostics, digital health, and enabling medical technologies and devices.

Projects must be led by small and medium-sized enterprises working alone or in partnership with other businesses, researchers or charities.

The competition has two types of award: feasibility studies to explore and evaluate the commercial potential of early-stage ideas; and primer awards to conduct technical evaluation of an idea through to proof of concept in a model system.