Invent Support

MIME Invent Support

The MIME Invent Support Program supports the development of new medical technologies that address significant unmet clinical needs. With our collaborators from the Monash Partners network, we work in partnership with clinicians, healthcare workers and administrators, and researchers in fields of IT/digital health, engineering and human-centred design to develop new medical technologies to solve these unmet healthcare needs.

The aim of Invent Support is to provide funding to enable research teams to conduct a body of work which will achieve a milestone that enables them to be competitive for major external funding opportunities. In parallel to applying for and using Invent Support funding, MIME intends to work with applicants in a range of ways to assist identification and development of subsequent funding opportunities.

Who should apply?

Through providing targeted funding for project teams, ‘Invent Support’ is an integral part of MIME’s program that collectively enables us to work together to solve the unmet clinical challenges that are at the heart of our work. Anyone who is an employee of one of MIME’s partner faculties may apply as the primary applicant. We strongly encourage cross-faculty collaborations, and expect that any applicant team will include a clinician and/or healthcare professional as a core member of the applicant team who has expertise in the relevant field.

MIME is tasked with and dedicated to supporting our project teams to achieve healthcare impact. We do this through providing knowledge and resources to move ideas and research forward, towards becoming products which can be used to solve these clinical problems. We fund projects where applicants demonstrate a desire to see their research translate to real world solutions. This involves demonstrating an understanding of the requirements needed to achieve this, and the project team engaging with MIME to further develop this understanding.

Through this program, we are interested in supporting projects and teams working on any medical technology ranging from TRL 1 to TRL 4. Direct research funding is just one branch of MIME’s Invent program; based on applicant’s needs MIME’s assessment panel may direct you to other paths for support, as well as further external funding programs where appropriate.

How much funding is available?

MIME will usually fund up to $50,000. We will fund this amount, and potentially more, only in exceptional circumstances, and clear justification must be provided for any funding amount.

Funding timelines

This program is presently open for expressions of interest at any time. We will aim to review your EOI and arrange a consultation meeting within two weeks from receiving your EOI.

The intended process from receipt of your EOI is summarised below. Note that if you are not successful post EOI or full application in receiving funding, you remain eligible in future for the same or other projects.

How to apply

The EOI form can be found here and the full application form can be found here.

The full application form is for reference and review only, please do not complete it until directed to by the MIME Program Manager.

MIME Invent funding timeline

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Any expenditure type is acceptable, as long as applicants can justify alignment with all other requirements. This can include technical, clinical and/or commercial-oriented bodies of work.
If you apply for Monash Invent funding, this signifies that you have a need and solution which has value to the healthcare market. Therefore, upon application we encourage you to submit a simple Innovation Disclosure Form to Monash Innovation.
Applicant teams must include, at minimum:
- An active clinician or health service staff member involved in managing healthcare who is employed within the Monash Partners network of health services. This person must be demonstrated to be influential, involved and important for the project in question, who can meaningfully contribute to advancing its development.
- A researcher who holds a primary appointment through Monash Faculties of either MNHS, FIT, FE or MADA. If awarded funding, this person and their faculty will be the recipient of funds.
- A PhD student or EMC researcher who leads hands-on project work
- Further team members, including those either within or outside the four faculties listed above, are not essential but strongly encouraged.
The project must be translational in nature – applicants need to demonstrate the proposed solution will be ready to take the next step towards commercial and/or a clinical development pathway during or immediately after the work proposed in the application. If basic fundamental research is proposed, researchers must clearly justify how the proposed work meets the necessary ‘translational’ requirements. If the proposed project is directed towards basic/fundamental research, applicants must clearly articulate how the project is geared towards a long-term translational outcome. Applicants must be able to show how the project could result in meaningfully solving the proposed unmet need.

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For further information about MIME Seed Funding contact andrew.carey@monash.edu

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Invent Support

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MIME Invent Support

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