£30m for biomedical engineering research
29 Aug 2012
The Wellcome Trust and EPSRC have announced the launch of a £30m initiative to find biomedical engineering solutions.
The Innovative Engineering for Health partnership will provide funding for a limited number of long-term projects that address healthcare needs for which current solutions are inadequate.
Up to £10m over seven years is available for each project.
Uniquely, the initiative provides the resources and flexibility to both conduct high-quality basic research and enable its adoption into clinical or public health practice.
Applications are invited for projects that will address problems of the highest priority in healthcare or public health for which solutions are not obvious given the current state of technology.
For example, priority will be given to proposals that address such problems as developing technologies to tackle rare diseases, facilitating care for babies and infants that accommodates challenges posed by growth and development, and finding engineering approaches for mental health problems.
The new initiative builds on the success of a £45m capacity-building initiative from the two funders to support four multidisciplinary centres of excellence in medical engineering around the UK.
The new scheme is open to global applications, and particularly encourages collaboration between the UK and the best international groups.
