FOI release

FOI2025/00066: Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D

Case reference FOI2025/00066

Received 23 January 2025

Published 29 April 2025

Request

Request Received: 23 January 2025

For the Biomedical Catalyst 2024 Round 1: Industry-led R&D please can I request:

1. The total number of submitted applications.

2. The number of assessed applications.

3. The number of successful applications.

4. The success rate.

5. The minimum successful score.

6. The maximum successful score.

7. Maximum score of failed applications.

8. Average grant fund value per project.

9. The score distributions of the applications (e.g. % (or number) of applications which scored:

<70, 71-75, 76-80, 81-85, 86+)

10. The count of applications by innovation area.

11. The count of successful projects by innovation area.

12. The number of successful projects that were a consortium of 2 partners.

13. The number of successful projects that were a consortium of 3+ partners.

14. The number of successful projects which included a university or research partner.

15. The number of applications which included a university or research partner.

16. The number of 1) applications and 2) successful projects with total project cost within £100k increments.

17. The number of submissions which got through to interview, and how many were successful

18. The number of unsuccessful applications, if any, which scored above the minimum funded score

Response sent: 19 February 2025

Full details of the response are contained in the attached documents.

This is UK Research and Innovation's response to a freedom of information (FOI) or environmental information regulations (EIR) request.