Applications opened for CSIRO’s Innovate to Grow, Health Care Innovation

Applications have opened for CSIRO’s free, eight-week Innovate to Grow program for SMEs, with the upcoming round focussing on health care solutions.

The online course offers practical guidance and tools on identifying and refining R&D opportunities, creating R&D business cases, and accessing funding.

The first workshop will take place on August 7 and applications are open until July 13.

“Having a great idea is one thing. Turning that idea into a genuine health care solution means matching it to patient and clinical need and understanding the pathway to market,” CSIRO's Research Director for Human Health, Dr Erica Bremner Kneipp said in a statement on Monday.

“That pathway involves ensuring the innovation can be developed to ensure it is safe, effective, and can be manufactured, and alert to all regulatory requirements.  

“CSIRO’s Innovate to Grow gives founders a structured way to stress-test their innovative ideas and plan their R&D project before any expensive lab work begins. This ultimately de-risks the idea and makes it more investable.”  

The round is open to companies operating in: 

• Biomedical devices  
• Multi-omics, biostatistics and bioinformatics  
• Medical imaging and genomics  
• Drug discovery, vaccines and therapeutics  
• Advanced cell models  
• Digital health  
• Public health and wellbeing  

More information is available here.

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Further reading

CSIRO’s free innovation program opens for WA agrifood SMEs 

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