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The Health & MedTech Funding Guide
Every serious route to grant funding for health, biomedical, diagnostics, digital health and MedTech innovators, and how to actually win it. UK, EU and US, all equity-free.
£190m+
secured for innovators
100s
applications won
25x
average return on our fees
98%
top assessor score
What is inside
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Before you apply
The six avoidable reasons most applications fail, including the 8% of Innovate UK bids ruled ineligible before an assessor reads a word.
02
Where the money is
NIHR i4i, Innovate UK and Biomedical Catalyst, SBRI Healthcare, Cancer Research Horizons, MRC and UKRI, Wellcome and LifeArc, Horizon Europe Health, EIC, Eurostars, NIH, ARPA-H, NSF and BARDA.
03
The core UK routes
Award sizes, intervention rates and eligibility for i4i Connect, Product Development and Challenge Awards, Biomedical Catalyst and the phased, 100%-funded SBRI Healthcare contracts.
04
Europe and the United States
Horizon Europe Cluster 1 consortia, the EIC Accelerator, and the $4bn a year SBIR/STTR system, plus what a US-owned entity actually requires.
05
How bids are scored
What assessors reward on innovation, clinical need, regulatory pathway, NHS adoption and commercial case, and where health bids usually lose marks.
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How GrantUp works
Our structured system, the team behind it, and the outcomes: £190m+ secured, hundreds of applications won, 98% top assessor score.
Who it is for
- Diagnostics, devices and digital health teams heading toward NHS adoption
- Therapeutics and biotech companies moving from discovery into translation
- MedTech SMEs with feasibility evidence and a first clinical partner
- Health companies weighing a UK, EU or US route, or all three in sequence
Working in another sector? Read the non-dilutive growth guide or get the Grant Funding Canvas.
Not sure which health programme fits your stage?
Book a free consultation with a consultant who has written and won NIHR, Innovate UK and Horizon Europe health applications.