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