The application of engineering tools and principles to design and engineer novel biologically based parts, devices and systems that do not exist in the natural world, as well as the redesign of existing natural biological systems for useful purposes.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) supports world-leading multidisciplinary synthetic biology research in the UK. Synthetic biology could help to solve major global challenges in fields including health and wellbeing, energy, food security and the environment.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
Design and synthesis of novel coordination complexes and ligands, and development of novel synthetic methodologies.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
This research area involves devising new ways to design and synthesise organic molecules, with an emphasis on developing new reagents or new novel synthetic methodologies based on new chemical reactivity.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
With a focus on structures comprising several or many molecules, design and synthesis of chemical systems using molecular self-assembly and recognition.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
This priority promotes systems biology approaches across our portfolio. Systems biology addresses biological questions by integrating experiments with computational modelling and theory. It aims to holistically explain biological function, from molecules to cells to whole organisms and populations.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
Prepare for future disease epidemics and halt the ‘slow motion pandemic’ of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
Funding councils:
AHRCBBSRCEPSRCESRCInnovate UKMRCNERC
This theme focuses on research that yields the next generation of new technologies, methodologies and resources in bioscience. The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) encourages development of novel bioanalytical or biological tools and technologies where there are gaps.
Funding councils:
BBSRC
This area explores the fundamental and foundational aspects of computers and computation.
Funding councils:
EPSRC
Towards a National Collection (TaNC) is a major investment using digital technology to create a unified national collection of the UK’s museums, libraries, galleries and archives to maintain global leadership in digital humanities and arts research.
Funding councils:
AHRC
