Businesses looking to solve industrially relevant research and innovation challenges are invited to submit expressions of interest to access STFC's (Science and Technology Facilities Council) skills, expertise, capabilities and world-class facilities.

Join us online on Thursday 28th September to launch the second round of the BBSRC - STFC facility access funding for bioscience partnerships opportunity, a joint funded programme by BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) and STFC, both part of UKRI.

This opportunity aims to fund academic-industry collaborative R&D partnerships undertaking industrially relevant research and innovation on bioscience and biotechnology within BBSRC’s remit. The programme is intended to foster impactful collaborations, supporting excellent, world-leading discovery research and innovation, which has clear benefit to the businesses involved, through direct access and use of STFC facilities and expertise.   The award of your project can be between £10,000 & £100,000.

Some examples of areas of work include:

Neutrons: Study atomic-level properties of materials, organic systems, antimicrobial-pathogen interactions, and toxin-membrane binding

X-rays: Collect high-resolution data to advance drug development, explore formulation behaviour, track biological changes, and visualise the effects of vaccines/therapeutics in cells

Lasers: Study single-molecule transport, environmental shifts, chemical pathways in biology, and real-time tracking of material changes

High Performance Computing: Molecular simulations, complex data analysis, drug interaction analysis, and formulation stability assessment

Scientific Computing: Use advanced computing expertise and digital research infrastructure to understand how genes and proteins operate, develop drugs, and apply to crop science and environmental monitoring

Deep Underground Science: Use gamma spectroscopy to study and measure trace levels of radioactivity in samples with various biological tracing and authenticity applications or study the effect of radiation in biological matter

The expression of interest stage needs to be submitted by industry and will be open until Tuesday 31st October 2023; the full-stage proposal must be submitted by the academic partner and will close in February 2024 (date tbc)

Join us for this event to find out more information about this funding opportunity, you can also take a look at the UKRI Funding Finder Website.

If you have any questions, please contact Mary Jenkinson-Finch at the Business Interaction Unit of BBSRC by emailing Business.Unit@bbsrc.ukri.org, please include ‘BBSRC/STFC facility fund’ in the subject line.

Joining instructions will be sent a few days prior to the Webinar

We very much look forward to welcoming you to this event.

STFC Events Team (industryevents@stfc.ac.uk)

Launch of BBSRC-STFC Facility Access Funding for Bioscience Partnerships