This is a parallel funding partnership between the Wellcome Trust and the Department of Health to stimulate the creation of innovative healthcare products, technologies and interventions and to facilitate their development for the benefit of patients in the NHS and beyond. The current call is inviting applications from UK-based investigators from the academic, healthcare and commercial sectors in six theme areas:
• Surgical technologies
• Innovative diagnostics
• Trauma and critical care medicine
• Informatics to assist clinical decision making
• Repurposing of medicines and medical devices
• Biological therapeutics
Funding available: £10 million, deadline: 15 Sept 2014.
Full details and application forms are available from the Wellcome Trust website.