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

Support for companies of all sizes is provided by the Health Team across the sector but particularly linked with the manufacturing of pharmaceuticals and advanced therapeutics. Members of the Health Team are closely aligned with the Medicines Manufacturing Industry Partnership and the Bioindustry Association.
KTN also organises the Medicines Manufacturing Challenge Community. Its core goal is to accelerate the outcomes from the medicines manufacturing ISCF Challenge which has seen £146m invested in different projects, including the Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre and Advanced Therapy Treatment Centres.
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Innovative technologies for intracellular drug delivery
Opens: 09/01/2023 Closes: 22/02/2023
UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £5m to support innovation in intracellular drug delivery formulations.
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Biomedical Catalyst 2023 Round 1: Industry-led R&D
Opens: 04/01/2023 Closes: 01/03/2023
UK registered SMEs can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop innovative solutions to health and healthcare challenges.
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Advancing precision medicine
Opens: 16/01/2023 Closes: 08/03/2023
UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £20m over two rounds, to develop digital and data-enabled tools and multi-modal approaches. Your proposal must address an unmet clinical need or respond to NHS demand signalling.
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Medicines Made Smarter: Data, AI, Robotics and the future of medicines manufacturing
As part of the ‘Making Manufacturing Smarter Webinar Series’, you’ll hear from Prof. Alastair Florence, DM2 PI and others as they introduce you to the early demonstrations in AI, robotics and more that they are working on to make the future a reality.
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Programmes related to Medicines

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.

Medicines Manufacturing Challenge Community
A now-completed programme that supported manufacturers of medicines in order to grow the UK economy – replaced by the Medicines Manufacturing programme.

Health Funding Map
The map was developed by KTN and the BioIndustry Association (BIA) with the help of a wide range of funders. It helps in the navigation of the complicated world of health innovation funding.