BBSRC: Strategic longer and larger grants – frontier bioscience

03/06/2021

06/07/2021

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council invites outline proposals for its strategic longer and larger responsive research grants in frontier bioscience. These support leading-edge discovery research that addresses significant fundamental questions in bioscience. Proposals are expected to be ambitious and have the potential to lead to a significant enhancement in our understanding of the rules of life that govern living systems. The total budget is worth up to £16 million to fund three to five awards. Proposals must be over £2 million and may last for up to five years.

Applications are welcomed across all biological scales, particularly those employing quantitative, multi-scale approaches that integrate bioscience research from different sub-fields. Proposals should employ or develop the latest technologies, methods and approaches that will result in world leading capability in bioscience within the UK.

The PI must be resident in the UK and an academic employee at the lecturer or equivalent level at an eligible organisation, which may be an HEI, a research institute funded by a research council or an approved independent research organisation. The inclusion of early-career researcher co-investigators within teams is encouraged. PIs and co-investigators demonstrate that they have the capability to successfully manage and deliver a programme of work of the proposed scale and complexity. Key indicators include: •a track record of making internationally important research contributions relevant to the proposed project; •a record within the last 10 years of significant financial support from major funding bodies; •a track record demonstrating the capability of the PI to effectively lead and manage teams.