BBSRC: Responsive mode – standard research grants

21/10/2021

12/01/2022

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council invites applications for its responsive mode standard research grants. These support curiosity-led research to advance the bioscience portfolio of the council. Projects can range in size up to £2 million and last up to five years.

Applications are particularly sought under the following priority areas: •animal health; •bioenergy – generating new replacement fuels for a greener, sustainable future; •combating antimicrobial resistance; •data driven biology; •food, nutrition and health; •healthy ageing across the life course; •integrative microbiome research; •new strategic approaches to industrial biotechnology; •reducing waste in the food chain; •the replacement, refinement and reduction in research using animals; •sustainably enhancing agricultural production; •synthetic biology; •systems approaches to the biosciences; •technology development for the biosciences; •welfare of managed animals.

Applications should be made to the following committees according to the research topic: research committee A evaluates proposals related to animal disease, health and welfare; research committee B evaluates proposals related to plants, microbes, food and sustainability; research committee C evaluates proposals related to genes, development, and science, technology, engineering and mathematics approaches to biology; research committee D evaluates proposals related to molecules, cells and industrial biotechnology.