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Biomedical Catalyst 2025: Industry led R&D large projects

Who it is for

This competition is open to single applicants and collaborations.

To work alone or lead a collaborative project, your organisation must be a UK-registered micro, small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) claiming grant funding in this application.

To collaborate with the lead, your organisation must be one of the following UK-registered:

• business of any size
• academic institution
• charity
• not for profit
• public sector organisation
• research and technology organisation (RTO)

Your project must:

• have total project costs up to £4 million
• not exceed a grant funding request of between £500,000 and £2 million
• have at least 50% of the total project costs shared by the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), if collaborative
• last between 6 months and 36 months
• start by 1 July 2026
• end by 30 June 2029

Support you can get

This competition aims to support micro, small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop innovative health and healthcare solutions with strong commercial potential. 

This competition is split into two strands:

• Industry led R&D small projects: up to £500,000 grant funding
• Industry led R&D large projects: up to £2 million grant funding (this strand)

For industrial research projects, you can get funding for your eligible project costs of:

• up to 70% if you are a micro or small organisation
• up to 60% if you are a medium sized organisation
• up to 50% if you are a large organisation

For experimental development projects which are nearer to market, you can get funding for your eligible project costs of:

• up to 45% if you are a micro or small organisation
• up to 35% if you are a medium sized organisation
• up to 25% if you are a large organisation

Support organisers

• Innovate UK

Contact

Innovate UK

Email

support@iuk.ukri.org

Phone:

0300 321 4357

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