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Health

Health is critical to our wellbeing as individuals, plays a key role in societal and economic advances, and presents many opportunities for environmental impact. Innovations in health & care allow us to alleviate suffering, increase quality of life and life expectancy, and manage the needs of a changing and ageing population.

Health

The “Health sector” which delivers these innovations is diverse and covers a wide range of business activities. KTN 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 KTN has considerable experience of working in these sub-sectors and of driving cross-sector working to facilitate positive change.

KTN’s 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.

Digital Health & Care

The digital health and care sub-sector is characterised by a large number of small companies developing technology across the health spectrum.

Medicines

The medicines sector is characterised by a few large pharmaceutical companies and a large number of SME “biotech” companies.

MedTech

Medical technologies touch all of our lives – from pregnancy testing and ultrasound scans before birth; through wound care products for childhood injuries; to diagnostic imaging systems and therapeutic implants for disease in adults.

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.

AI in Health

The application of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to the field of health represents a major opportunity for the UK. AI is a powerful tool that can be applied across industry sectors to solve specific challenges. The application of these tools in Health requires a mutual understanding between the AI and Health communities.

Microbiome

The Microbiome Innovation Network (formerly SIG) aims to accelerate the commercialisation of microbiome-based products and services in the UK and create a vibrant community by connecting industry and academia.

Neurotechnology

From bioelectronic medicine that treat chronic diseases, to brain-computer interfaces that help stroke rehabilitation, neurotechnology will play an increasingly important role in meeting some of the challenges of an ageing society.

Funding Opportunities

SBRI Healthcare Competition 18: Stroke and Technology

An SBRI Healthcare competition for funding innovations in the pre-hospital diagnosis and rehabilitation of stroke. SMEs and organisations from the private, public and third sectors, including charities, are invited to submit innovative solutions to tackle pre-hospital diagnosis, rehabilitation and life after stroke.

Opens: 25/06/2021 Closes: 24/08/2021

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Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021-2022: Health Cluster 1

Horizon Europe has a wide variety of open calls for healthcare, with closing dates in September 2021, April 2022 and September 2022. These include tackling diseases and reducing disease burden, staying healthy, health industry, health care, new technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society, and health-promoting environment.

Opens: 12/07/2021 Closes: 06/09/2022

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SBRI: Healthy Ageing Social Ventures industrial research

Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million inclusive of VAT to develop products and services to support healthy ageing, for projects of £50k-£150k.

Opens: 19/07/2021 Closes: 15/09/2021

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Events

Thu
15
Oct
2020

Emerging & Novel Sensing Technologies for Precision Medicine & Digital Health

10.00 - 12.00 | Online

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2
Dec
2020

What is 5G and its role in the health sector and panel session

10.30 - 11.30 | Online

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9
Nov
2020

Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund for Healthy Ageing Showcase

13.00 - 17.00 | Online

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Giulia Boselli

Knowledge Transfer Manager - Precision Medicine

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Karen Wilkinson

Knowledge Transfer Manager - Health

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Terry O’Neill

Head of Health

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Marcel Kuiper

Knowledge Transfer Manager - Health

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Matt Chapman

Knowledge Transfer Manager - MedTech & Manufacturing

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Mehdi Tavakoli

Knowledge Transfer Manager - Health

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Gabriela Juarez Martinez

Knowledge Transfer Manager - Pharma & MedTech

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David Calder

Knowledge Transfer Manager - Health & Care

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News

08.04.2021

Horizon Europe Cluster 1: Health

Horizon Europe is the next European Funding Framework Programme following on from its predecessor Horizon 2020. It will run for seven years from 2021 to 2027. The total budget set for the programme is €95.5 billion. There are six Clusters under Pillar 2: Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness. Health is Cluster 1.

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07.06.2021

A transformative roadmap for neurotechnology in the UK

Innovation experts, KTN, publish a roadmap calling for multi-million pound investment to develop and commercialise ground-breaking treatments for disorders of the brain and nervous system.

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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.

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Neurotechnology Landscape

Neurotechnology is the application of electronics and engineering to the human nervous system and ranges from the measurement of the whole brain through technologies such as electroencephalography to the stimulation of a single nerve using bioelectronic medicines.

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