Innovative Medicines Initiative
With support from the Innovative Medicines Initiative, you will be able to conduct international research for the development of new and efficient medical treatments. The initiative aims at strengthening Europe's competitiveness through collaborations between stakeholders such as the biotech and pharma industry, governmental institutions, patient associations, and research institutions. The IMI offers funding opportunities for large companies as well as SMEs.
The Innovative Medicines Initiative is supporting a number of research topics. Overall, IMI aims to deliver:
A 30% better success rate in clinical trials of priority medicines identified by the WHO
Clinical proof of concept in immunological, respiratory, neurological and neurodegenerative diseases in just five years
New and approved diagnostic markers for four of these diseases and at least two new medicines which could either be new antibiotics or new therapies for Alzheimer's disease
For 2014-2024, the IMI has a budget of 3.3 billion euros. It is financed by the EU and the industry organization EFPIA.
Below are the upcoming deadlines for Innovative Medicines Initiative. Expect 1-2 months for the proposal writing process.
IMI - Call 8
Deadline: March 16, 2017
The topic of this call is: Ebola and other filoviral haemorrhagic fevers (Ebola +) program: future outbreaks.
This call is the second call under the Ebola + program. It provides an opportunity to capture emerging scientific advances and to progress those rapidly into health care interventions. Projects funded under this call should ensure fast development, uptake and / or wide deployment of sustainable innovative solutions that will result in an increased readiness to respond to future outbreaks.
IMI - Call 10
Deadline: March 28, 2017
IMI has launched its 10th Call for proposals under the IMI2 program, with the following topics:
Topic 1: Understanding hypoglycemia: the underlying mechanisms and addressing clinical determinants as well as consequences for people with diabetes by combining databases from clinical trials
Topic 2: How big data could support better diagnosis and treatment outcomes for prostate cancer (part of the Big Data for Better Outcomes program)
Topic 3: Improving the care of patients suffering from acute or chronic pain (this topic includes three subtopics on patient reported outcomes; biomarkers; and chronic pelvic pain)
Topic 4: Creation of a pan-European pediatric clinical trials network
Topic 5: Biomanufacturing 2020: development of innovative high throughput analytical tools and methods to characterize cell culture fluid during development and commercial cell culture processes
Topic 6: Unlocking the solute carrier gene-family for effective new therapies (unlock SLCs)
Topic 7: Patient perspectives in medicines lifecycle
Topic 8: Personalized medicine approaches in autism spectrum disorders
IMI - Call 8
Deadline: September 14, 2017
The topic of this call is: Ebola and other filoviral haemorrhagic fevers (Ebola +) program: future outbreaks.
This call is the second call under the Ebola + program. It provides an opportunity to capture emerging scientific advances and to progress those rapidly into health care interventions. Projects funded under this call should ensure fast development, uptake and / or wide deployment of sustainable innovative solutions that will result in an increased readiness to respond to future outbreaks.
Ependysis Business Consultants can prepare you in the submission of the investment file, as well as to help you arrange the partners of the project.