BBSRC and other funders: BBSRC-STFC facility access funding for bioscience partnerships

30/11/2023

08/02/2024

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Science and Technology Facilities Council invite applications for the facility access funding for bioscience partnerships call. This supports UK business and bioscience academic partnerships in accessing and benefitting from STFC skills, expertise, capabilities and world class facilities to find solutions to industrially-relevant challenges. The programme provides support and access to advanced analytical technologies, expertise, and capabilities, located at STFC's large scale science facilities around the UK including Harwell, and Daresbury, specifically including: - Neutrons: study structure and dynamics of materials at the atomic scale, including organic systems, the interaction of antimicrobials with pathogen membranes, or toxins from pathogens with models of mammalian and plant membranes - X-rays: acquire high resolution data to understand the structure and function of macromolecular complexes to accelerate drug discovery, design and development investigate formulation microstructure and behaviour under a range of conditions, follow chemical changes in biologically relevant processes or to visualise the effect of vaccines or therapeutics within whole cells; - Lasers: understand everything from single-molecule transport in biological systems to environmental changes and chemical pathways in cells, tissues and biomaterials watch how chemical and biochemical changes in materials happen in real-time; - High performance computing: classic computing for molecular simulations (for example, structural drug representations and molecular docking) data analysis of complex datasets looking for significant correlations drug interaction and stability both in the formulation and in solution; - Scientific computing: advanced computing expertise and digital research infrastructure expertise in developing software for processing experimental biological data, high-performance computing infrastructure, data storage systems and artificial intelligence for science; - Deep underground science facility a rare opportunity to undertake science in an ultra-low background environment, largely free of interference from natural radiation on the Earth’s surfaces.

STFC and BBSRC remit.

Eligibility Note You must: be a UK based business registered at Companies House have a manufacturing base for the relevant product in the UK or provide the relevant service in the UK intend to exploit the results in the UK 'To be eligible as the academic partner, you must be from one of the following organisations: UK higher education institutions Research council institutes UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) approved independent research organisations Public sector research establishments NHS bodies with research capacity.