EPSRC: Healthcare technologies – investigator-led research projects

03/03/2022

31/03/2022

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council invites proposals for its investigator-led research projects. This supports researchers working in engineering, physical sciences, ICT and mathematical sciences who want to apply their expertise to a defined healthcare challenge. Funding is provided at 80 per cent full economic cost and may cover staff costs, equipment and other items required to carry out the project, costs related to impact, and travel and subsistence.

Application should be in line with the grand challenges of the following healthcare technology themes: •developing new therapies, focusing on the need to produce safer, more targeted treatments fit for the demands of the decades up to 2050 and beyond; •expanding the frontiers of physical intervention, the potential to enhance established techniques and develop pioneering new approaches to such intervention that deliver high precision, minimal invasiveness and maximum impact; •transforming health and care beyond the hospital, meeting the need for novel technologies that enable timely interventions beyond hospital settings and help people manage their own physical and mental health; •optimising disease prediction, diagnosis and intervention, addressing both physical and mental health with techniques that optimise patient-specific illness prediction, accurate diagnosis and effective intervention. Projects which address the transformation of community healthcare, improve prevention and public health, and projects within fields of ICT, mathematical sciences and physical sciences are encouraged.

The principal investigator must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the the submitting research organisation, which may be a HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an independent research organisation and public sector research establishments and NHS bodies. Applicants who hold an EPSRC, Royal Society or Royal Academy of Engineering fellowship aimed at later career stages or hold fellowships under other schemes may also apply. New investigator awards are also invited for consideration under this scheme.