Funder
BBSRC: TRDF: Transformative Research Technologies
Added date
02/07/2020
Closing date
08/10/2020
Call summary
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Council, as part of UK Reserarch and Innovation, invite applications for their transformative research technologies call. The total budget is £2.75 million. Grants are worth up to £150,000 each for six to 18 months.
Scientific scope
Applications should focus on one or more of the following:
•transformative technology development that has the potential to result in innovative and potentially disruptive new technological capabilities applicable to the biosciences;
•radical innovation that has the potential to deliver a step change in current technological capabilities in aspects such as accuracy, precision, resolution, throughput, and breadth of application to facilitate new research discoveries;
•new software tools and algorithms to address key data analysis challenges in biosciences research.
PI eligibility
Standard eligibility criteria of UKRI-BBSRC