Medicines
The medicines sector is characterised by a few large pharmaceutical companies and a large number of SME biotech companies.
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Support for companies of all sizes is provided by the Health Team across the sector but particularly linked with the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and advanced therapeutics. Members of the Health Team are closely aligned with the Medicines Manufacturing Industry Partnership and the Bioindustry Association.
Innovate UK Business Connect also organises the Medicines Manufacturing Challenge Community. Its core goal is to accelerate the outcomes from the medicines manufacturing ISCF Challenge which has seen £146m invested in different projects, including the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre and Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres.
Related Opportunities
Launchpad: life and health sciences, Northern Ireland – Round 2 CR&D
Opens: 04/11/2024 Closes: 11/12/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.3m for innovation activities in the life and health sciences cluster in Northern Ireland.
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Launchpad: life and health sciences, Northern Ireland – Round 2 MFA
Opens: 04/11/2024 Closes: 11/12/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £4.3m for innovation activities in the life and health sciences cluster in Northern Ireland.
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Launchpad: Bio-based Manufacturing, Scotland – Round 2 CR&D
Opens: 04/11/2024 Closes: 11/12/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5.25m to grow their innovation activities in the bio-based manufacturing cluster in Scotland.
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Launchpad: bio-based manufacturing, Scotland – Round 2 MFA
Opens: 04/11/2024 Closes: 11/12/2024
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £5.25m to grow their innovation activities in the bio-based manufacturing cluster in Scotland.
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Investor Partnerships in health technologies, West Yorkshire: Rd 1
Opens: 04/11/2024 Closes: 11/12/2024
Grant funding for SME innovation projects, alongside investment from selected investor partners, in the health technology cluster in West Yorkshire
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Life Sciences Innovative Manufacturing Fund (LSIMF): Expression of Interest
EOIs accepted on a rolling basis; quarterly assessments
Capital grants to support investments over £8m in the manufacture of human medicines, medical diagnostics and medtech products; assessed quarterly
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Related Events and Recordings
Related News
24/07/2024
£3.2m funding awarded to advance early-stage healthcare innovation
Thirty-three companies, which took part in Innovate UK Biomedical Catalyst pilot accelerators, have been awarded funding to further develop their innovative projects.
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01/04/2024
UK-Kenya Health Global Innovation Network launches to address cancer challenges
In a groundbreaking convergence of minds, the UK-Kenya Health Global Innovation Network was officially launched on 13 March 2024 in Nairobi.
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Related programmes
Transforming Medicines Manufacturing
Innovate UK’s Transforming Medicines Manufacturing programme aims to drive the de-risking and adoption of highly innovative flexible, agile and scalable manufacturing technologies through a culture of collaboration that will drive the growth of this critically important manufacturing sector.
Biomedical Catalyst
Helps transform innovative ideas into commercially viable businesses.
Medimap: End-to-end medicines supply chain map
Medimap is a new interactive reference tool for the UK medicines sector, mapping and categorising over 3,000 sites of organisations engaged in or supporting the end-to-end supply chain for medicines.