Innovative Health Initiative: Draft topics for IHI calls 3 & 4

The Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking (IHI JU) is an EU public-private partnership funding health research and innovation. IHI is the successor of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), the world’s largest public-private collaboration in life sciences.

IHI has published the draft texts of topics under consideration for inclusion in the next calls for proposals. IHI is publishing the draft topic texts in advance of the official call launch to give potential applicants additional time to start building a consortium and drafting a proposal.

IHI call 3

Call type: single stage | Scheduled for launch: December 2022

• Topic 1: Screening platform and biomarkers for prediction and prevention of diseases of unmet public health need
• Topic 2: Patient generated evidence to improve outcomes, support decision making, and accelerate innovation
• Topic 3: Combining hospital interventional approaches to improve patient outcomes and increase hospital efficiencies
• Topic 4: Strengthening the European ecosystem for Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) and other innovative therapeutic modalities for rare diseases
• Topic 5: Digital health technologies for the prevention and personalised management of mental disorders and their long-term health consequences

IHI call 4

Call type: two stage | Scheduled for launch: early 2023

• Topic 1: Expanding translational knowledge in minipigs: a path to reduce and replace non-human primates in non-clinical drug safety assessment
• Topic 2: Patient-centric blood sample collection to enable decentralised clinical trials and improve access to healthcare

Currently, the draft topics are under consultation with IHI’s States Representatives Group and Science and Innovation Panel. It is therefore likely that the topics may change considerably between now and the call launch, and applicants should check the final, approved topic texts once the calls are launched.

The IHI Programme Office is planning webinars and a brokerage opportunities around the time of the call launches to help applicants learn more about the topics as well as IHI’s rules and procedures.

More information on the IHI Call Days for calls 3 and 4 can be found on https://ihi-call-days.ihi.b2match.io/

The main activities of the Call Days will be as follows:

Call 3 (single-stage) – Call Days 12-15 December 2022

• Info sessions on the rules and procedures and financial part of the proposal
• Info sessions on the call topics
• Matchmaking sessions per call topic
• Pitching sessions per call topic

Call 4 (two stage) – Call Days 18-19 January 2023

• Info session on the rules and procedures
• Info sessions on the call topics