Innovate UK, GB: Advancing precision medicine

19/01/2023

08/03/2023

Innovate UK invites applications for its Advancing precision medicine call. This supports projects aiming to develop digital and data-enabled tools as well as multi-modal approaches for more accurate diagnosis and treatment stratification. The aim of this competition is to award innovation projects that focus on novel digital and data-enabled tools to more accurately diagnose conditions and stratify patients to the most appropriate treatments and increase the application of integrated and multi-modal approaches to determine risk and diagnosis and to predict prognostic outcomes. The total budget is £20 million. Project’s total costs must be between £500,000 and £1 million and last between 18 months and 24 months. Projects must carry out all of its project work in the UK and intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.

Projects can focus on one or more of the following: - integrating clinical data sets or multi-omic data sources - development of artificial intelligence or machine learning algorithms and clinical decision-making tools to improve early detection, risk prediction, diagnosis, patient stratification, targeted treatments or prognostic outcomes - identification of digital markers, potential targets or data-derived phenotypes to stratify patient to more effective therapies.

To lead a project organisations must be a UK registered business of any size, be a UK registered research and technology organisation (RTO) or collaborate with other UK registered organisations. If the lead organisation is an RTO it must collaborate with at least 2 businesses (one SME, and one business of any size). Academic institutions cannot lead. To collaborate with the lead, organisation must be a UK registered business of any size, academic institution, charity, not for profit, public sector organisation or research and technology organisation (RTO). Subcontractors are allowed in this competition. Subcontractors can be from anywhere in the UK and you must select them through your usual procurement process.