Results of the Call

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  • DATA 2025

    The CaixaImpulse Health Innovation Call 2025 has awarded a total of 3.93 million euros to 31 health innovation projects, including two projects that are already taking part in the programme and have applied to progress to a higher stage. Of the finalist projects, two have been selected in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) of the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior de Portugal.

    Information regarding the CaixaImpulse Health Innovation Call 2025 and the results are presented below: number of proposals submitted, pre-selected and selected projects by business area and project maturity, as well as the territorial distribution of the selected projects.

    Table 1: General information of the CaixaImpulse Health Innovation Call 2025.

    CAIXAIMPULSE 2025 CALL

    Total budget

    € 3,932,699.16

    Number of proposals submitted

    428

    Number of eligible proposals

    428

    Number of projects pre-selected

    64*

    Number of projects selected

    29*

    Success rate

    6.7 %

    *These numbers do not include the additional projects currently in the programme that have applied to move on to higher stages by means of an Evaluation checkpoint.

    Figure 1: Number of projects selected by territory and project stage.

    Figure 1: Number of projects selected by territory and project stage

    Table 2: Success rate by project stage.

    PROJECT PHASE

    PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

    PROJECTS PRE-SELECTED

    PROJECTS SELECTED

    Stage 1

    248

    30

    12.1 %

    17

    6.9 %

    Stage 2

    162

    26

    16 %

    10

    6.2 %

    Stage 3

    18

    8

    44.4 %

    2

    11.1 %

     

    428

    64

    15 %

    29

    6.8 %

    Table 3: Success rate by project stage (Applications currently in the programme, undergoing internal checkpoint evaluation to progress to higher stages).

    PROJECT PHASE

    APPLICATIONS FROM INTERNAL EVALUATION CHECKPOINT

    PROJECTS SELECTED

    Stage 2

    4

    1

    25 %

    Stage 3

    4

    1

    25 %

    Table 4: Number of projects selected by business area and project stage.

    PROJECT PHASE

    THERAPEUTIC

    MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL HEALTH

    TOTALS

    Stage 1

    8

    9

    17

    Stage 2

    5

    6

    11

    Stage 3

    1

    2

    3

     

    14

    17

    31

    Table 5: Success rate by gender.

    PROJECT LEADER

    PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

    PROJECTS PRE-SELECTED

    PROJECTS SELECTED*

    SUCCESS RATE*

    Women

    212

    29

    14

    6.6 %

    Men

    213

    33

    14

    6.5 %

    Others

    1

    0

    0

     

    Prefer not to say

    2

    2

    1

     

     

    428

     

    29

     

    *These data include only the proposals from the 2025 Call. Of the projects progressing from previous stages, 2 are led by women.

Evaluation process

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  • REMOTE EVALUATION PHASE

    • Of the 428 proposals presented, zero were considered ineligible.

    • The proposals were evaluated by a total of 127 experts: at least three per project.

    • The proposals were assigned through a project and evaluator matching process, taking into account the business area, thematic areas and sub-areas, and the stage of the programme to which they were presented.

    • The final score for each project was adjusted based on two standardisation coefficients related to the mean and dispersion of scores for each evaluator.

    • There were four proposals with a discrepancy of more than 2.5 points which were evaluated by a fourth evaluator. The mean score was calculated taking into account the four standardised scores.

  • INTERVIEW PHASE

    64 projects advanced to the interview phase: The top 30 proposals from stage 1, the top 26 proposals from stage 2 and the  top 8 from stage 3, according to the ranking established with the remote evaluation scores.

    During the interview phase, 4 projects from Stage 1 applied to progress to Stage 2, and another 4 from Stage 2 applied to progress to Stage 3.

    The interviews were evaluated by differentiated panels for each of the stages (1, 2 or 3) and the business areas of the projects (Therapeutic and MedTech/Digital Health). These panels were made up of four to eight experts selected for their depth of knowledge and area of expertise, in addition to a member from Criteria Bio Ventures.

    Of the selected proposals, it was proposed that one from stage 2 should enter the programme as stage 1, based on the recommendation of its evaluation panel.

    Finally, 31 proposals were funded, 29 by ”la Caixa” Foundation and 2 by the Portuguese government agency Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, within the framework of the collaboration established between the two institutions.

  • LIST

Summary of selected projects

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CODE

TITLE

PROJECT LEADER

CENTRE

MODALITY

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

STAGE

BUSINESS AREA

BUDGET (€)

CI25-10137

Design and Fabrication of Drug-Eluting Biodegradable Polycaprolactone mesh implants

Maria Elisabete Teixeira da Silva

Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (INEGI)

Consortium

Universidade do Porto

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

49.924,56

CI25-10210

Fully Automatic Occluding Device Sizing for LAAC in 3D TEE

Pedro Morais

2Ai - Applied Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Digital Health

50.000,00

CI25-10249

Next-Generation Antimicrobials: A Precision Medicine Approach to Gram-Negative Infections

Marc Torrent

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

49.000,00

CI25-10265

Advanced Gamma Detectors for Precision Medicine and Theranostics

Pedro Correia

University of Aveiro
i3N - Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodeling and Nanofabrication

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50.000,00

CI25-10269

Boosting spine REGENeration with customized fetal matrIX ingredients

Joana Caldeira

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50.000,00

CI25-10325

Engineered Biocomputers for Real-Time Tumor Monitoring

Marta R. Casanova

Universidade do Minho

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

49.939,60

CI25-10354

Blood-brain barrier-on-a-chip (BBB-oC) for drug testing of brain-targeting delivery

Anna Lagunas

Fundació Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

50.000,00

CI25-10370

MicroAspiration Retrieval System - A novel thrombectomy device for distal vessel occlusion strokes

Marc Ribó

Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d´Hebron - Institut de Recerca (VHIR)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

49.000,00

CI25-10420

Monitoring Chamber based on Cherenkov for FLASH beam monitoring and control

Pedro Assis

Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50.000,00

CI25-10446

Preclinical development of a first-in-class treatment for autism spectrum disorder

Mercè Pallàs

Universitat de Barcelona

Consortium

Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, M.P.

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50.000,00

CI25-10447

CUstom-MAde DEvice design for Complex Structural Heart Diseases

Dabit Arzamendi

Fundació Institut de Recerca de l'Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50.000,00

CI25-10473

AI-Powered Screening of R-loop Modulators for Cancer Therapy

Robert Martin

Fundação GIMM - Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50.000,00

CI25-10539

Harness lncRNA targeting to enhance treatment for colorectal cancer

Luisa Statello

Fundación para la Investigación Médica Aplicada (FIMA/CIMA)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50.000,00

CI25-10647

A Nanovaccine-Based Immunotherapy Targeting Klebsiella pneumoniae Colonization

Astrid Pérez

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

49.000,00

CI25-10655

Generating Artificial Targets to Deliver Therapies Selectively to the Brain

Daniel González

Fundació Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50.000,00

CI25-10683

Combining the power of surgery and light in the treatment of cancer

Ana Piqueras Hinojo

Fundació Institut d’Investigació en Ciencies de la Salut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50.000,00

CI25-10749

LINE-1 Identification for novel elements with active retrotransposition

Marc Güell

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

49.000,00

CI25-20009

An innovative biopolymer for ophthalmologic treatments

Anna Roig

Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB)
Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

150.000,00

CI25-20024

Automating Preoperative Assessments for Enhanced Patient Care and Healthcare Efficiency

Ancor Serrano

Institut d´Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

149.482,89

CI25-20156

A TDP-43 sensor for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases

María del Valle Palomo

Fundación IMDEA Nanociencia

Consortium

Fundación para la Investigación Biomédica del Hospital Clínico San Carlos

STAGE 2

Diagnostics

150.000,00

CI25-20197

Validation of a novel epigenetic decoding of blood DNA to predict clinical benefit of immunotherapy

Isabel Barragán

Fundación para la Investigación de Málaga en Biomedicina y Salud

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Diagnostics

145.200,00

CI25-20385

Non-Invasive Prediction of the Benefit of Immunotherapy in Advanced Lung Cancer

Mónica Martínez-Fernández

Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Galicia Sur (IISGS)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

150.000,00

CI25-20397

TAR-NK: A TGF-β- and Activin A-Resistant off-the-shelf NK cell product for cancer treatment

Aura Muntasell

Hospital del Mar Research Institute (HMRIB)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

144.100,00

CI25-20532

4D bioresorbable stent: a lifelong solution for pediatric aortic coarctation

Andrés García

IQS School Of Engineering, Universitat Ramon Llull

Consortium

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

148.500,00

CI25-20596

Engineering a technology for site-specific transgene delivery in tumors using tumor-specific T cells

Alba Rodriguez

Fundació de Recerca Clínic Barcelona - Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer

Individual

 

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

149.952,00

CI25-20598

Allowing adoptive T cell therapies in solid tumors

Joan Seoane

Fundació privada Institut Investigació Oncologica Vall Hebron (VHIO)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

150.000,00

CI25-20711

Accelerating an armored CAR T cell therapy for metastatic/refractory bone and soft tissue sarcoma

Clara Bueno

Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras

Consortium

Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i la Docència Sant Joan de Déu

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

149.600,00

CI25-2U079

Overcoming resistance to virotherapy for pediatric brain tumors

Marta M Alonso

Fundación para la Investigación Médica Aplicada (Cima Universidad de Navarra)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

150.000,00

CI25-30194

ACE: Advance Cutaneous Evaluator

Óscar Pérez

Fundación Centro Tecnolóxico de Telecomunicacións de Galicia (GRADIANT)

Consortium

Fundación Pública Galega de Investigación Biomédica Galicia Sur

STAGE 3

Medical Devices

500.000,00

CI25-30479

TREX2 inhibitors: a breakthrough keratinocyte-based therapy for Psoriasis and beyond

Sara Preciado

Institut d´Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 3

Therapeutics

499.999,50

CI25-3U559

DUFIC, a device for in vivo uterine fluid collection

Pilar Coy

Universidad de Murcia

Individual

N/A

STAGE 3

Medical Devices

500.000,00