Pill QuickFire Challenge: Designing Solution Children’s Wellness Through The Pandemic and win up to $50,000

Johnson & Johnson is offering Naturals QuickFire Challenge focusing on Children’s Wellness invites innovators to submit potential new form ingestible innovations and/or vehicles of delivery for children’s wellness products that utilize ingredients inspired by nature. For example, gummy vitamins can help to maintain good health, support a healthy diet, and offer a solution to consumers who have difficulty swallowing pills. The next innovative approach to pediatric wellness could help more children and families adopt healthy habits. The innovator(s) with the best idea(s) will receive up to $50,000 in grant funding, one year of residency at an available JLABS, and mentorship from the Johnson& Johnson Family of Companies.

Eligibility Criteria:

• They're interested in the potential to bring innovation to the Children’s Wellness category with new form innovation and/or delivery methods.  
• Examples of Children’s Wellness categories include vitamins, digestive health, probiotics, immunity, emotional health, and sleep.
• Evidence-based potential solutions will be evaluated by a panel of reviewers and judges on their ability to meet the following criteria:

1. Inspired by nature
2. Differentiating science, ingredients, forms, or ingested delivery methods vs. current portfolio and competitive offerings in the marketplace
3. Quality & feasibility of technology
4. Preferably supported by nonconfidential pre-clinical or clinical data (could be references to existing literature)
5. Team credibility & capabilities
6. Clarity of plan (milestones & defined go/no go decisions)

• Product should be available for commercialization in existing retail channels within 6-18 months.

Award:

• Up to $50,000 in grant funding
• One year of residency at an available JLABS with the use of a bench, workstation, and access to the JLABS global ecosystem
• Mentorship from the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

About Johnson & Johnson:

Johnson & Johnson Innovation is a global network of open innovation ecosystems, enabling and empowering innovators across a broad healthcare spectrum including pharmaceutical, medical device, consumer and health tech sectors to create and accelerate the delivery of life-saving, life-enhancing health and wellness solutions to patients around the world. It achieves this by providing the optimal environment for emerging companies to catalyze growth and optimize their research and development by opening them to vital industry connections and providing a capital-efficient, flexible platform where they can transform the scientific discoveries of today into the breakthrough healthcare solutions of tomorrow.

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