EPSRC: Transformative healthcare technologies – development phase

10/09/2020

14/10/2020

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites outline proposals for their call for transformative healthcare technologies. This provides seed funding for analysing, evaluating and establishing the attainability of key elements of a research project. EPSRC is looking for applications that do not just consider health treatment but also homecare, prevention and wellbeing with the overall goal of keeping people physically and mentally healthy. We seek and encourage adventurous ideas, fundamental innovation and interdisciplinary working that have the potential to significantly improve healthcare delivery by 2050. The total budget for the first phase is up to £6 million, to support around 15 to 20 projects over 15 months. Grants are worth up to £300,000 each at 80 per cent full economic cost.

Biomedical Engineering; Telemedicine; Health & Medical Informatics; Assistive Technology. Among these, the funders are particularly keen to help realise the potential of the following: •research that merges robotics and biological systems; •pre-symptomatic diagnosis and continuous health monitoring; •future affordable and inclusive healthcare solutions; •technologies to improve healthcare treatment; •repurposing technologies originally developed for other fields for potential healthcare impact.

PIs can only lead on one application and may be named as co-investigator on one other. The PI must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be an HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation.