Funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be a researcher or innovator who is looking to establish or transition to independence.
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Search and filter this listApply for BBSRC and Defra funding to support collaborative R&D projects developing novel products and innovations delivering healthy, sustainable, and resilient diets for the UK population.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Apply to Follow-on Fund (FoF) to bridge the gap between bioscience research and achieving economic and societal benefit.
FoF applications must draw substantially on current or prior BBSRC funding.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Apply for funding to advance sustainable, resilient, and ethically responsible livestock and aquaculture systems across Europe.
Consortia need at least three eligible partners from three countries and may have a maximum of eight partners.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Apply to attend a four-day interactive sandpit to co-develop research projects that develop, validate, and critique novel scientometric indicators for use in research assessment and in future metascience research.
The sandpit will take place in April 2026.
BBSRC ICURe Explore is a market exploration programme for bioscience researchers and technicians.
BBSRC ICURe Explore is open to bioscience researchers in:
- UK universities
- BBSRC-funded institutes
- BBSRC-approved public sector research enterprises
You must have completed ICURe Discover in order to apply.
Apply for fellowship funding to build artificial intelligence (AI) capability.
This funding opportunity is for established researchers from across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit, without a background in core AI research, who want to build domain relevant AI capability.
You may apply only if invited to do so following a successful outline application.
Apply for funding to undertake cutting-edge Metascience research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of AI and the challenges of measuring research excellence.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for UKRI funding.
Apply for funding to pursue early-stage development of cutting-edge research technologies with transformative potential in the biosciences.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Apply for funding for large team-based fundamental bioscience research projects pushing the frontiers of human knowledge.
You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.
Full stage submissions are invitation only following assessment of a sLoLa outline application.