Pill QuickFire Challenge: Designing Solution Safety Through The Pandemic and win up to $100,000

Keeping kids safe at home is more important than ever – including safely storing medicines. Especially, as many families are living a new normal with children spending more time at home due to the pandemic. To inspire innovators to tackle this safety risk, Johnson & Johnson Innovation is proud to introduce the Pill Protect QuickFire Challenge: Designing for Medication Safety. They invite visionaries to submit ideas aiming to prevent or reduce the accidental accessing by children of medications in pill minders, pill organizers or pill dispensers. The innovator(s) with the best idea, potential technology, or potential solution will receive up to $100,000 in grantfunding, access to the global JLABS network and mentorship from experts at the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies.

Conditions:

• Enhanced technologies and designs aimed to protect children from accessing medicine which do not compromise the appropriate accessibility by adults.
• Redesigned pill minders with the potential to improve medication storage, proper usage, and encourage patient compliance
• Priority will be given to potential innovations backed by data. 
• Applications that clearly describe a concept or path forward to achieve these goals will also be considered during evaluation. 
• Please keep in mind that no idea is too big or too early for consideration.

Award:

• Up to $100,000 in grant funding
• Access to the global JLABS network
• Mentorship by the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies

Application process:

• The submitted potential solution must either be pioneering or evidence based.
• Submitted ideas must meet at least three of the below criteria:

1. Actionable – is the project achievable?
2. Measurable in terms of health impact
3. Filling a current data gap
4. Proven sustainability or strong rationale for a sustainable business model

Timeline:

• Applications Open: October 19, 2020
• Application Deadline: January 29, 2021
• Awardee announcement: Spring 2021

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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