BBSRC: Strategic longer and larger grants - frontier bioscience

02/11/2023

06/02/2024

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council invites outline proposals for its strategic longer and larger responsive research grants in frontier bioscience. This supports bioscience research projects which push the frontiers of human knowledge. Projects must be grounded in frontier bioscience: discovery research that pushes the limits of human knowledge, and which has the potential to lead to major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems. Projects are expected to generate new fundamental biological knowledge of broad and long-term significance, changing how we think about bioscience within and likely transcending their immediate fields. The total budget is worth up to £20 million to fund three to five awards. The full economic cost of your project must be over £2,000,000. BBSRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost and may last for up to five years.

Proposals should employ or develop the latest technologies, methods and approaches that will result in world leading capability in bioscience within the UK. Projects should: have the potential to lead to major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems significantly enhance the capability and capacity of UK biosciences demonstrate a fully integrated team science approach demonstrate the need for longer and larger scale funding.

Eligibility Note This funding opportunity is open to teams of eligible researchers at: higher education institutions research council institutes approved independent research organisations public sector research establishments A single principal investigator, who will be the main contact for BBSRC, must be designated as the project lead for administrative purposes. The intellectual leadership and overall management of the project may be shared with any number of co-investigators at any number of eligible research organisations as part of a team science endeavour, with roles clearly specified in the application. Principal investigators and co-investigators who are not resident in the UK are not permitted.