Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis
Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis is a grant of up to £3,000,000 for businesses and research partners in a collaborative project to develop or test technologies that detect cancer earlier, across the UK. This scheme has closed.
Run by Innovate UK · funded by Office for Life Sciences (OLS), Office for Life Sciences Cancer Healthcare Goals programme
Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 15 Oct 2026.
This scheme has closed
It closed on 28 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.
Innovate UK competition to fund projects that develop, validate or evaluate diagnostic technologies for earlier detection of cancer, particularly less common cancers. Funding is a grant; projects can be led by businesses but the text covers research organisations too.
Status and deadline
Status
Confirmed on the official page
Deadline
As stated: Closing date: 28 October 2026, 11:00am
Confirmed on the official page
How much
Whole fund: £25,400,000, shared between applicants
You put in: Businesses fund the share of eligible project costs not covered by the grant percentages above.
Confirmed on the official page
Who can apply
Confirmed on the official page
Business size
Not confirmed on the official page
How to apply
Not confirmed on the official page
Where it is open: UK-wide
Confirmed on the official page
Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.
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Source and last checked
Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk) on 15 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 29 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with Innovate UK before you apply.
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- find-government-grants.service.gov.uk/grants/advancing-innovation-in-accelerated-cancer-diagnosisthe official page, checked automatically, read 15 Oct 2026
- apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/2527/overview/d48f61f8-2bd5-4067-9c05-29dd08487the official page, checked automatically, read 5 Oct 2026