This grant has closed. The deadline passed 159 days ago.

You can no longer apply, but the details below are kept for reference, and there are similar open opportunities in the sidebar.

✓ Early-stage friendly

Innovations in Cost-Disruptive Tools for Diagnosis and Screening Grand Challenge 2026 Grant

••••• Foundation

A foundation

In context

This call is open to startups, small and medium-sized businesses and large companies and 3 others, at idea and R&D stage, prototype and pilot stage and pre-seed. Funding is a grant. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country and Global-South.

Climate Health grants

Summary

The funder is funding innovative diagnostic and screening tools that dramatically reduce costs and enable deployment in low- and middle-income countries, including AI-enabled, software-driven, and hardware solutions. Eligible applicants range from startups to established research institutions and companies at any technology maturity stage.

Summary by Raise Lens from the official notice · 2 Sept 2026Accurate?

About this grant

The funder invites applications for innovative solutions that significantly reduce the cost of diagnostic and screening tools while enabling scalable and effective deployment in low- and middle-income countries. The initiative focuses on cost-disruptive diagnostic devices and $1-class tests, transformative high-risk and high-reward innovations, novel sensing modalities, software-defined diagnostics, AI-enabled or software-only approaches, scalable screening and same-visit decision-making, cross-sector and multimodal solutions, and platform-based innovations that improve cost efficien …