Health Innovation Challenge Fund (HICF) is a translational funding scheme run in partnership by the Wellcome Trust and Department of Health.
The scheme aims to accelerate the clinical application of projects that are well advanced along the development pathway.
With this current call we are inviting applications from academic, healthcare and commercial sectors in five theme areas:
- Surgical technologies
- Innovative diagnostics
- Trauma and critical care medicine
- Repurposing of technologies and medicines
- Biological therapeutics.
The lead organisation must be UK-based and carry out R&D in the UK. Overseas collaborators are permitted.
The deadline for preliminary applications is Tuesday 5 May 2015 1:00 pm.