i4i Challenge Awards – Cardiovascular Disease

i4i Challenge Awards – Cardiovascular Disease

• 10 January 2012
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The i4i Challenge Awards is a new i4i funding stream that aims to bridge the gap between the innovation and development of new medical technology and its adoption into clinical pathways.

Despite clinical evidence for its use, the cost and risk of implementing a new device into clinical pathways can make it difficult to get the product adopted into clinical practice. The NIHR has allocated £15 million over the next three years to the i4i Challenge Awards to help overcome these issues by identifying and supporting the application of emerging platform technologies which hold the potential to have a disruptive impact on clinical pathways.

The first challenge that the i4i Challenge Awards will address is cardiovascular disease – the leading cause of death in England and worldwide.

The first i4i Challenge Awards call for proposals will open on 27 February 2012.

For full details, please visit: http://www.ccf.nihr.ac.uk/i4i/Pages/i4iChallengeawards.aspx