The Transformative Technologies Strategy Advisory Panel has a focus on the tools, technologies, and approaches that enable researchers to push the boundaries of bioscience discovery and stimulate innovation.
Terms of reference
The panel will provide advice to UK Research and Innovation and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) on a broad range of topics including:
- disruptive experimental methods and technologies to advance bioscience research and innovation
- research employing quantitative approaches to harness large scale data in the biosciences
- development, dissemination, and stewardship of computational methods, software, data resources, and cyberinfrastructure
- emerging interdisciplinary fields within the biosciences
Panel membership 2025
- Professor Richard Emes (Chair), Nottingham Trent University
- Professor Rachel Errington, Cardiff University
- Professor Thomas Gorochowski, University of Bristol
- Professor Sarah Harris, University of Sheffield
- Professor Pippa Hawes, The Francis Crick Institute
- Dr Andrew Holding, University of York
- Dr James McCafferty, Wellcome Sanger Institute
- Professor Jason Swedlow, University of Dundee
- Dr Darren M. Wells, University of Nottingham
Meeting dates
- 28 to 29 May 2025, Birmingham
- 7 to 8 November 2024, Cardiff
- 13 to 14 May 2024, Manchester
- 9 to 10 November 2023, Birmingham
- 7 to 8 February 2023, Birmingham
- 13 July 2022, virtual
- 6 December 2021, virtual
- 4 and 6 May 2021, virtual
- 2 to 3 December 2020, virtual
Meeting summaries
Read the summaries of meetings from May 2024 onwards
Contact
Transformative Technologies
Email: tt@bbsrc.ukri.org
Last updated: 11 July 2025