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BBSRC: New investigator scheme

Added date

09/04/2020

Closing date

23/06/2020

Call summary

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council invites applications for its new investigator scheme. This assists early-career researchers in securing their first major element of research funding.

Scientific scope

Applications should be made to the following committees according to the research topic: 1) research committee A evaluates proposals related to animal disease, health and welfare; 2) research committee B evaluates proposals related to plants, microbes, food and sustainability; 3) research committee C evaluates proposals related to genes, development, and STEM approaches to biology; 4) research committee D evaluates proposals related to molecules, cells and industrial biotechnology.

PI eligibility

Applicants must be newly employed university lecturers, fellows at the lecturer level whose awards were secured in open competition, or researchers in research council institutes at the unified research council band E or its equivalent. They must not have received competitive research funding as a PI from any source that included postdoctoral research assistant staff support costs.