14th January 2015
Funding Call Deadline 15th April 2015: Wellcome Trust Translation Fund
Funding Call Deadline 15th April 2015
The aim of Translation Awards is to develop innovative and ground breaking new technologies in the biomedical area.
Projects must have already demonstrated proof of principle, supported by experimental data. Applications should bridge the funding gap in commercialisation of new technologies in the biomedical area and must plan to take the product, technology or intervention to a stage at which it is sufficiently developed to be attractive to another party.
Translation Awards are designed to be flexible, enabling freedom to innovate and push the boundaries of current knowledge. Our aim is to support exceptional individuals with the brightest minds through larger and bolder awards to accelerate product development. The Fund will consider applications that are either single projects or portfolio programmes.
To encourage more applications in underserved and challenging areas, the fund will have strategic highlight areas.However, projects covering any aspect of technology development from a range of disciplines – including physical, computational and life sciences – will be considered at any time. Projects must address an unmet need in healthcare or in applied medical research, offer a potential new solution, and have a realistic expectation that the innovation will be developed further by the market.
The Trust will normally actively participate in the stewardship of the project and lead on intellectual property management and exploitation.