Inventors for Health

Inventors for Health is a person-centred innovation support programme for individuals or small teams with invention ideas in the life sciences and medicine. The programme supports early-stage idea identification and development, strengthens entrepreneurial skills and provides intensive training and mentoring to accelerate translation into patient-relevant solutions. It targets staff affiliated with Berlin biomedical research institutions and aims to facilitate follow-on financing and commercialization.

Early-stage support for invention development, entrepreneurial skills training, intensive mentoring and facilitation of follow-on financing; operational support by Charité BIH Innovation and SPARK-BIH.

Applicants must hold a university degree and be employed at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin or at the Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin; clinically active personnel were given particular attention though non-clinical staff were also eligible.

Not specified; contact details (phone and email) for the programme lead are provided for enquiries.