Get ready for IHI call 13

One call for is closing, and another one will open soon – with more opportunities for partnerships between industry, researchers, healthcare and civil society. Many of you will have spent the last weeks polishing proposals for IHI call 12 ahead of last week’s deadline, and we have now published the draft topics for our call 13, which will open in summer.

At IHI we publish our draft topics when they are sent out for consultation with our governance groups – we think the transparency is important, but most importantly it gives everyone the opportunity to start reaching out to potential collaborators. The call 13 topics are a case in point: the topics are ambitious and multidisciplinary, and successful proposals will need to build new connections across different expertise and organisations.

This month we published an article summarising our projects on NAMs – new approaches and methods to reduce, refine and replace animals in the development of medicines and medical devices. This is a great example of how public-private partnerships drive real progress – taking excellent research all the way through the innovation journey to regulatory approval and deployment. The replacement of pyrogen testing of vaccines with cell-based assays is saving tens of thousands of animals. In call 13 we have the next topic in this series – a call for innovative approaches to waive the need for a second species in medicines toxicology.

Enjoy the read!

Niklas Blomberg, IHI Executive Director