Biomedicine - Wellcome Trust Technology Transfer Translation Awards 2014-2

The Wellcome Trust is inviting requests for its Technology Transfer Translation Awards. Deadline for submitting concept notes is October 24, 2014. The aim of Translation Awards is to develop innovative and ground breaking new technologies in the biomedical area. Proposals are welcome from academic and commercial organisations based in the UK and overseas. 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. 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. The Wellcome Trust provides funding for the directly incurred costs of the research project. Directly incurred costs are actual costs that are explicitly identifiable as arising from the conduct of a project (e.g. staff salaries, equipment, materials, travel).

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to achieving extraordinary improvements in human and animal health.