Innovate UK to launch a new two-phase competition

Innovate UK is to invest up to £10m in a two-phase competition to promote the development of new diagnostic products and services for use in stratified medicine.

This SBRI competition aims to accelerate and/or increase the development and adoption of innovative diagnostic tools in order to offer better targeted treatment to patients within the UK healthcare system. It also aims to demonstrate the benefits of companies working within the UK 'enabling infrastructure', that can help companies understand healthcare needs and design, evaluate and deliver their products and services into the NHS.

Up to £2m is available for phase 1 of the competition and up to a further £8m may be available in a second phase to further develop successful phase 1 projects.

Key dates:

Competition opens - 7 September 2015

Briefing event - 15 September 2015

Registration deadline - 28 October 2015 noon

Deadline for applications - 4 November 2015 noon

Contracts awarded - January 2016

View competition brief here.

Finally a reminder of SBRI Healthcare's competition 'Older People with Multiple-Morbidities' with a focus on;

• Addressing functional needs in the elderly
• Faecal and urinary incontinence in frail elderly people
• Minimising the impact of falling

Is still open and closes on 11th August, read more on the competition and how to get involved here.