BBSRC’s priorities guide what we invest in across our research portfolio.
Our research and innovation priorities are based on our high-level objectives: advancing the frontiers of bioscience discovery, and tackling strategic challenges.
Advancing the frontiers of bioscience discovery
Our priorities for this objective are:
Tackling strategic challenges
Our priorities for this objective are:
- bioscience for sustainable agriculture and food
- bioscience for renewable resources and clean growth
- bioscience for an integrated understanding of health.
You can find out more about our high-level objectives and research and innovation priorities in BBSRC’s delivery plan.
If you’re applying for a standard research grant
It’s a good idea to consider how your research contributes to BBSRC’s strategic priorities if you’re applying for a standard research grant (a funding opportunity open to a wide range of research and approaches within BBSRC’s remit).
We also encourage proposals for research with potential impacts relating to at least one of these priority areas:
- animal health
- bioenergy: generating new replacement fuels for a greener, sustainable future
- combatting antimicrobial resistance
- data-driven biology
- food, nutrition and health
- healthy ageing across the life course
- integrative microbiome research
- new strategic approaches to industrial biotechnology
- reducing waste in the food chain
- replacement, refinement and reduction (3Rs) in research using animals
- sustainably enhancing agricultural production
- synthetic biology
- systems approaches to the biosciences
- technology development for the biosciences
- welfare of managed animals.
BBSRC also welcomes research proposals that outline how you will improve the effectiveness and impact of research by focusing on any of these additional priority areas:
How we manage our portfolio and priorities
BBSRC’s strategy advisory panels help to shape our research and innovation portfolios. The panels consist of experts and stakeholders from the biosciences research community, the private sector, learned societies and wider society.
You can also help shape our future research portfolio by submitting a Big Idea to our pipeline of ambitious and adventurous ideas from the bioscience community.