Results of the Call

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  • DATA 2024

    The CaixaImpulse Health Innovation Call 2024 has awarded a total of 3.4 million euros to 29 health innovation projects. Of the finalist projects, one has 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 2024 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.

    CAIXAIMPULSE 2024 CALL

    Total budget

    € 3,381,759

    Number of proposals submitted

    413

    Number of eligible proposals

    406

    Number of projects pre-selected

    72

    Number of projects selected

    29

    Success rate

    7 %

    Table 1: General information of the CaixaImpulse Health Innovation Call 2024.

    Figura 1: Número de propuestas presentadas por territorio

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

    PROJECT PHASE

    PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

    PROJECTS PRE-SELECTED

    PROJECTS SELECTED

    Stage 1

    224

    30

    13,4 %

    16

    7,1 %

    Stage 2

    166

    30

    18 %

    11

    6,6 %

    Stage 3

    23

    12

    52,2 %

    2

    8,7 %

     

    413

    72

    17 %

    29

    7 %

    Table 2: Success rate by project stage.

    PROJECT PHASE

    THERAPEUTIC

    MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY AND DIGITAL HEALTH

    TOTALS

    Stage 1

    6

    10

    16

    Stage 2

    5

    6

    11

    Stage 3

    1

    1

    2

     

    12

    17

    29

    Table 3: Number of projects selected by business area and project stage.

    PROJECT LEADER

    PROPOSALS SUBMITTED

    PROJECTS PRE-SELECTED

    PROJECTS SELECTED

    Women

    188

    33

    7

    Men

    219

    38

    21

    Others

    1

    0

    0

    Prefer not to say

    5

    1

    1

    Table 4: Results by gender.

Evaluation process

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  • REMOTE EVALUATION PHASE

    • Of the 413 proposals presented, 7 were considered ineligible.

    • The proposals were evaluated by a total of 113 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 sixteen 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

    72 projects advanced to the interview phase: The top 60 proposals from stages 1 and 2 (30 per stage) and the top 12 from stage 3, according to the ranking established with the remote evaluation scores.

    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 six 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 3 should enter the programme as stage 2, and that two from stage 2 enter as stage 1, based on the recommendation of their respective evaluation panels.

    Finally, 29 proposals were funded, 28 by funds from the ”la Caixa” Foundation, and one by funds from the Portuguese government agency Fundação para a Ciencia e a Tecnología, in the framework of the collaboration established between the two institutions.

  • LIST

Summary of selected projects

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See each selected project
 

Code

Title

Project leader

Centre

Modality

Partner institutions

Stage

Business area

Budget (€)

CI24-10034

Improving taxol response through the manipulation of the cancer tubulin code

Sonia Silva

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

Consortium

Universidade do Porto

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

49,967,00

CI24-10180

Molecular glue degraders for a novel drug target in acute myeloid leukemia

Marcus Buschbeck

Fundació Institut de Recerca Contra la Leucèmia Josep Carreras

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

49,000,00

CI24-10227

Generating tissue resident memory T cells for cancer immunotherapy

Marc Veldhoen

Instituto de Medicina Molecular

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50,000,00

CI24-10473

Chemical inhibition of novel Diffuse Midline Glioma vulnerabilities

Luciano Di Croce

Fundació Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50,000,00

CI24-10612

Targeting cryptic exons as biomarkers and ALS therapy

Manuel Portero

Institut De Recerca Biomedica De Lleida. Fundació Dr. Pifarre

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

41,000,00

CI24-10630

Non-opioid light-activated drugs for pain management without side effects

Amadeu Llebaria

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Consortium

Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (France); University of Montpellier (France)

STAGE 1

Therapeutics

50,000,00

CI24-10110

Genetic predisposition to myocardial infarction in the young

Ramon Brugada

Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Girona (IDIBGI)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

49,000,00

CI24-10322

CELLECTED - An Innovative Approach for Non-Invasive Bladder Cancer Detection and Patient Monitoring

Raphaël Canadas

Universidade do Porto

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

49,999,00

CI24-10486

MSPredict: MS Prognosis through Advanced Imaging Analysis

Pablo Naval

Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50,000,00

CI24-10491

An aptamer-based rapid diagnostic test for the simultaneous detection of malaria and dengue

Claudio Parolo

Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal)

Consortium

FURV-Fundació Universitat Rovira i Virgili

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

50,000,00

CI24-10670

Validation of a new methodology and biomarkers for predicting relapse in endometrial cancer patients

Maria J. Macias

Fundació Institut de Recerca Biomèdica (IRB Barcelona)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

50,000,00

CI24-10681

Leveraging Genomics and AI for Non-Invasive Detection of Endometrial Cancer, a Urine Sample Solution

Laura Costas

Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

50,000,00

CI24-10743

Artificial Intelligence system for predicting embolisms in infective endocarditis

J. Alberto San Román

Hospital Clínico Universitario de Valladolid

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

50,000,00

CI24-10063

Biomimetic Bacterial NanoCellulose medical device with gradient porosity for osteochondral repair

Miguel Gama

Universidade do Minho

Consortium

i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde da Universidade do Porto - Associação; Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50,000,00

CI24-10305

Focused ultrasound therapy for repairing spinal cord in people with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Pablo Villoslada

Fundació Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques (IMIM)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Medical Devices

50,000,00

CI24-10293

Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer origins disclosed by organoid driven organ-on-chip technology

Daniel A. Ferreira

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

Individual

N/A

STAGE 1

Diagnostics

49,000,00

CI24-20222

NanoERT: nano-delivery platform for Enzyme Replacement Therapy in Parkinson's and Gaucher's disease

Julia Lorenzo

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Consortium

Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe; Fundació Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron - Institut de Recerca (VHIR)

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

150,000,00

CI24-20449

Testing targeted drug therapy in metabolic liver disease

Cecilia Rodrigues

FARM-ID - Associação da Faculdade de Farmácia para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

150,000,00

CI24-20467

Development of a microRNA-regulated cell death-inducing gene therapy (miRGT) for cancer

Ana Rita Fragoso

Instituto de Medicina Molecular

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

149,032,50

CI24-20581

Towards an effective and safe therapy for hormonal-deficiency osteoporosis based on klotho protein

Joan Roig

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

Consortium

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

145,850,00

CI24-20693

Targeting CDK16-18 as a novel strategy against aggressive cancers

Marcos Malumbres

Fundació privada Institut Investigació Oncologica Vall d'Hebron (VHIO)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Therapeutics

150,000,00

CI24-20107

A medical brain computer interface device to improve social cognition in autism spectrum disorder

Miguel Castelo-Branco

Universidade de Coimbra

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

148,980,19

CI24-20130

Artificial intelligence collaborative robot for patient-specific laser treatment of vascular lesions

Bruno Oliveira

Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave

Consortium

University of Southern Denmark (Dinamarca)

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

150,000,00

CI24-20329

Famba: international surveillance and data analytics platform for prevention of emerging pandemics

José Muñoz

Institut de Salut Global de Barcelona (ISGlobal)

Consortium

Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium); LMU Klinikum (Germany); IRCCS Ospedale Sacro-Cuore Don Calabria (Italy)

STAGE 2

Digital Health

149,930,00

CI24-20447

CRISPR-Cas Endonuclease Chain Reaction: a revolution in point-of-care genetic testing

Felipe Cortés

Fundación del Sector Público Estatal Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas Carlos III

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Diagnostics

150,000,00

CI24-20499

NeurAntigen: A Human Neural Method for the Diagnosis of Autoimmune Encephalitis

Eugenia Martínez Hernández

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

Consortium

Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

STAGE 2

Diagnostics

150,000,00

CI24-20039

Antimicrobial bioinspired membranes for skin regeneration

Salvio Suárez

Fundació Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia

Individual

N/A

STAGE 2

Medical Devices

150,000,00

CI24-30620

Heptammune: a first-in-class biologic immunomodulator against autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease

Josep M. Aran

Institut d'Investigació Biomèdica de Bellvitge (IDIBELL)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 3

Therapeutics

500,000,00

CI24-30165

SureVision

Víctor Rodriguez

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Individual

N/A

STAGE 3

Medical Devices

499,000,00