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The Health sector which delivers these innovations is diverse and covers a wide range of business activities. Innovate UK Business Connect covers the whole sector by focusing on the broad sub sectors of Medicines, Medical Technology and Digital Health. The logic behind this focus is that each of the sub-sectors is a significant sector in its own right and has distinct characteristics. The Health team at Innovate UK Business Connect has considerable experience of working in these sub-sectors and of driving cross-sector working to facilitate positive change.
Our Medimap provides a dynamic representation of the UK’s end-to-end medicines supply chain covering organisations involved in the discovery, development and manufacture of medicines, as well as those supporting the sector.
Our Health Funding Map, developed with the BioIndustry Association (BIA), will help in the navigation of the complicated world of medical and health innovation funding. You can find links to, details of, and further information on many funding schemes covering a wide variety of health areas.
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Related Opportunities
Horizon Europe 2025 work programme Cluster 1: Health
Opens: 03/05/2025 Closes: 16/09/2025
Topics available under Horizon Europe’s Health programme for 2025/26, with funding of up to €20m per project.
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Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: Cancer Mission
Opens: 06/05/2025 Closes: 24/09/2025
Funding available through Horizon Europe for research into cancer prevention and cures, with up to €11m for the largest projects.
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Global Business Innovation Programme: Health & Medical Technologies - Singapore
Opens: 01/07/2025 Closes: 24/08/2025
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious innovative companies to participate in its Global Business Innovation Programme (GBIP).
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Innovate UK ISP56 – Sensing Technologies for Health
09.30 - 16.30 | Birmingham
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Embedding sustainability capabilities in medicines manufacturing operations
11.00 - 12.00 | Online
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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.
Health Funding Map
The map was developed by Innovate UK Business Connect and the BioIndustry Association (BIA) with the help of a wide range of funders. It helps in the navigation of the complicated world of health innovation funding.