PainChek® Ltd. announced that a project to create a specific version of PainChek® for non-verbal children living with a disability has been recognised by the State Government of Western Australia through a $392,820 grant from the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund. The project was one of 17 awarded in the McGowan Government's inaugural Innovation Seed Fund 2022 with more than $8 million distributed under the program, focused on novel ideas that have the potential to improve the health and wellbeing of Western Australians. The project, known as `Detecting pain in kids who can't tell user it hurts: PainChek® for children with disabilities', is led by Associate Professor Jenny Downs, from Telethon Kids Institute on behalf of the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia along with PainChek's Professor Jeff Hughes.

The grant is further validation and evidence of the need for technology-enabled tools, such as PainChek® for the assessment of pain in non-verbal children. As such the project addresses a significant unmet need and opens the opportunity to expand PainChek's market opportunities. PainChek® is already used in over 800 aged care facilities globally and has transformed pain management in residential aged care homes across both Australia and in the UK.

PainChek Ltd. will hold the exclusive rights to utilise the arising IP to commercialise the new tool, and have global, non-revocable, exclusive and perpetual rights for future pain assessment tool development or refinement.