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This is a detailed list of all our councils’ themes, research areas, programmes and priorities. You can find what we are investing in and what resources you can access.

To understand our overarching objectives and future plans, see the UKRI strategic themes and council delivery plans.

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Advanced manufacturing and clean growth

This programme holds a major role in supporting the development of new biological processes, strains of organisms and feedstocks. These can be used to support:

novel, bio-based and low carbon manufacturing processes
the production of more sustainable products
the development of remediation processes.

BBSRCEPSRCInnovate UKNERC

Advanced pain discovery platform (APDP)

The aim of this programme is to deliver a consortium-based platform of national scale that will break through the complexity of pain and reveal potential new treatment approaches to address a wide spectrum of chronic and debilitating clinical conditions.

BBSRCESRCMRC

Animal health

The focus of the animal health priority is to support fundamental and strategic research leading to the development of intervention strategies for combatting endemic and exotic infectious diseases that reduce the health and welfare of farmed or domesticated animals of importance to the UK economy.

BBSRC

Antimicrobial resistance

The aim of this programme is to support and enable UK researchers to carry out unique research, in collaboration with colleagues around the world, to improve our understanding of antimicrobial resistance.

AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCMRCNERCSTFC

Artificial intelligence in bioscience

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is supporting the development of new artificial intelligence (AI) approaches relevant to bioscience, and application or adaptation of existing AI approaches that can lead to high-quality and transformative research outcomes.

BBSRC

BBSRC Follow-on Fund

The BBSRC Follow-on Fund (FoF) is designed to support the translation of fundamental research into practical application, including commercialisation. We want to ensure that innovation arising from BBSRC-funded research has the best opportunity to create positive impacts for society.

BBSRC

BBSRC Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) Explore programme

BBSRC’s Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) Explore programme trains, funds, and supports research teams to determine whether there is a market for products or services that utilise their bioscience-based research and technologies.

BBSRC

BBSRC International Schemes

BBSRC’s International Schemes include a range of shorter and longer term awards for working with overseas scientists and researchers. Depending on the type of award, the funding can be used for:

travel
overseas visits
access to facilities not available in the UK
workshops
other activities and costs.

BBSRC

BBSRC research to combat antimicrobial resistance

This Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) priority aims to support research focused on combatting antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and research that underpins the development of strategies to mitigate the effects, for example, through novel alternatives to antimicrobials.

BBSRC

Bioenergy – replacement fuels for a greener, sustainable future

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council’s (BBSRC) interests are focused on supporting research projects that will deliver greenhouse gas emission savings through the biologic production of sustainable, advanced biofuels and other low carbon fuels.

BBSRCEPSRC

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