The Biomanufacturing Fund ( BMF ) will present as much as £38 million in capital grants to incentivise funding within the manufacture of vaccines and biotherapeutics, to enhance the UK’s well being resilience for future pandemics.
The BMF follows on from the £60 million Life Sciences Progressive Manufacturing Fund and the £20 million Medicines and Diagnostics Manufacturing Transformation Fund.
Particular themes
We notably welcome functions for the manufacture of:
drug substance (for instance lively pharmaceutical ingredient ( API )
) completed drug product (for instance fill/end)
part supplies (similar to beginning supplies, supply techniques, adjuvants)
for the next product classes:
vaccines: all vaccine modalities
biotherapeutics: together with monoclonal antibodies and cell-and-gene therapies
This record isn’t exhaustive.
Eligibility
This can be a abstract of the minimal necessities for ‘in scope’ tasks (learn the scheme steering for full particulars).
Your manufacturing funding should relate to the manufacture of:
Human medicines (this contains each the manufacture of lively pharmaceutical substances ( API ) / drug substance and completed product / drug product). The fund is open to functions throughout the breadth of forms of MHRA licenced medicines for human use.
We is not going to settle for functions that suggest to fabricate:
veterinary medicines
natural medicines and nutritional vitamins
consumables or tools (similar to vials or syringes)
Your mission should:
be a producing mission: this may very well be manufacturing product for scientific trials or for industrial sale
be situated within the UK
have a complete funding worth of greater than £12 million
You can be required to:
display that your organization has the monetary capability to ship the mission
display that the mission is absolutely funded except for the grant request
present the newest 3 years of annual audited accounts to your firm and dad or mum firm, as out there. If in case you have fewer than 3 years of annual audited accounts, your utility should still be thought-about
To guard public funding, it’s essential to:
present a parental enterprise assure out of your final dad or mum firm
or
or safe and pay for a financial institution assure for the total grant quantity over the length of the mission
Fund targets
We’ll prioritise candidates primarily based on their alignment to the fund’s targets:
1. Rising well being resilience within the UK for future pandemics by elevated home capability, or by offering versatile capabilities which have the power to be re-deployed;
2. Creating financial alternative by investments that can make a considerable contribution to Gross Worth Added and supply high-wage, high-skilled jobs.
How one can apply
1. If your organization and mission meet ALL the standards listed above and also you verify it is possible for you to to offer the required proof and monetary ensures – submit a brief abstract of your mission (now not than one facet of A4) outlining:
mission background: an outline of the deliberate funding, related context and a sign of when the funding may begin
an estimate of the whole dimension of the funding damaged down into capital, R&D and any coaching prices. Notice: we’ll solely have the ability to pay a grant in the direction of the capital prices, however it’s useful so that you can inform us about the entire mission prices
Ship the abstract to the BMF mission staff at [email protected]. We advocate you share this with the BMF mission staff effectively upfront of the EOI deadline (step 2) so now we have ample time to debate your utility with you. This abstract will allow the BMF staff to advise on whether or not your mission is more likely to be in scope and your organization is eligible to use. It is not going to be used to evaluate the deserves of the mission; in case your mission is eligible, it is going to be assessed subsequently as a part of the Expression of Curiosity part and interview.
2. Topic to the dialog you will have had with the BMF Mission Staff, you must full an Expression of Curiosity ( EOI ) type. These can be reviewed as described beneath:
Phases
We purpose to open the fund in 2 phases, with the next deadlines to submit EOIs :
Part 1 deadlines for EOIs :
Wave 1: Friday 30 June 2023, 12pm (midday)
Wave 2: Monday 31 July 2023, 12pm (midday)
If funding stays out there on the finish of Part 1, we’ll re-open the fund for a Part 2. The beneath dates are indicative.
Part 2 deadlines for EOIs :
Wave 3: Tuesday 31 October 2023, 12pm (midday)
Wave 4: Thursday 30 November 2023, 12pm (midday)
We encourage you to use early because the fund will shut as soon as all funding is allotted.
Candidates who apply within the 1st part (June-July 2023) can be prioritised for due diligence, particularly if they may spend a considerable quantity of the grant earlier than March 2024.
3. Candidates can be invited for an internet interview roughly 2 weeks after the EOI deadline. We’ll inform you of your slot the earlier week.
4. Candidates can be knowledgeable whether or not theyhave been profitable on the EOI stage roughly one month after the EOI deadline. If profitable, you can be invited to submit a full utility. We’ll organise a briefing name that can assist you perceive how you must full the total utility type and to agree a date for when you must submit your utility by.
Initiatives which have utilized to the Life Sciences Progressive Manufacturing Fund ( LSIMF ) are welcome to use to BMF , so long as they meet the standards and eligibility necessities. Initiatives will solely have the ability to obtain funding from certainly one of these; functions can solely be thought-about for one fund.
If in case you have already submitted an Expression of Curiosity to the LSIMF Part 2 that opened on 2 Could 2023 and also you suppose your mission is perhaps higher suited to BMF , please contact the BMF assist staff.