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The NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative (MIC) works with patients, carers, NHS, charities, academia, inventors, SMEs and business angels to support the development of new medical devices and healthcare technologies improving the effectiveness and quality of healthcare services in the brain injury care pathway. We aim to Find, Facilitate and Foster ideas for early stage evaluation to meet the needs of those who have been affected by brain injury.

If you would like to discuss your project with us, please complete section A of our Initial Engagement Form 2019 and send it to info@brainmic.org

Our Expertise

The NIHR Brain Injury MedTech Co-operative (MIC) is clinically-driven by the thirteen themes that span the brain injury patient patway.

Our themes

Funding opportunities

The Brain Injury Medtech Co-operative engages annually in seedcorn funding competitions and mentoring of young innovators through small grants subject to rigorous independent review by our network of experts.

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The Unmet Needs Directory

The Brain Injury Unmet Needs Directory aims to illustrate some of the possible unmet needs that may exist in the brain injury patient pathway. It is the result of 5 years of unmet need identification activities including workshops, surveys and competitions.

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Funding Opportunities

1. Seedcorn funding competition

The Brain Injury Medtech Co-operative engages annually in seedcorn funding competitions and mentoring of young innovators – open to the whole of the UK – through small grants subject to rigorous independent review by our network of experts.

Priority in seedcorn funding is given to projects in line with unmet needs and desired outcomes identified by Patient and Carer representatives, within an approach that ensures that novel ideas and technologies are identified at an early stage and economic value identified and captured.

For more information, visit our seedcorn funding competition page.

2. Other funding opportunities

Visit our funding opportunities page to find out more about current funding opportunities from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP), The Newton Fund, and many more