Deadline: 16 February 2024
Do you have a game-changing idea or an innovative technology that can transform the lives of cancer patients? If yes, then apply for the Cancer Tech Accelerator Program.
The Cancer Tech Accelerator supports innovative technologies that can advance the early detection, diagnosis, monitoring or treatment of cancer.
Created by a consortium of the UK’s leading cancer charities, the accelerator supports you to spin original research into a commercially viable startup. They will give you a platform to test your idea with world-leading experts, ranging from deep AI all the way to clinical oncology.
Through the accelerator, you will be supported to compete for funding, develop your commercial proposition, form a startup, and gain all of the tools to successfully bring your innovations to market.
The 9 – Month Programme Features
- 5-Day Virtual Bootcamp
- Delve into the ‘Deep Tech Playbook’ with industry insiders, oncology experts and tech entrepreneurs about challenges specific to the field of oncology
- Phase 1
- Over three months you will gain the skills required to develop a truly innovative medical technology. They’ll help you create a robust business and development plan to move your concept towards investor readiness and expose you to the expert network to pressure test this plan.
- Phase 2
- Six months to develop your technology and £70k non-dilutive grant funding to develop and experimentally validate your approach. You will then form a start-up primed for onward development, high growth, and future investment
What they are looking for?
- They want to work with researchers, at any stage, with a novel idea or technology to improve the lives of cancer patients including imaging, diagnostics, medical devices or using a new data-driven approach. You do not need to be a recipient of any previous funding to apply.
For more information, visit Capital Enterprise (UK) Limited.
