Biology & Life Sciences Part of UKRI

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Funded awards
21,013
Published funding
£7.0B
Average published award
£442K
Active funded awards
3,160

Amounts are published for 15,826 of 21,013 funded awards.

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council funds most in Genetics & Molecular Biology — 3,336 grants (16%). Its largest recipient is University of Edinburgh, with 1,106 grants.

Funded Awards by Year

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YearFunded awards
2006886
20071,027
2008977
2009898
2010800
2011750
2012995
2013876
20141,120
20151,517
20161,357
20171,278
20181,076
20191,088
20201,071
20211,052
20221,201
20231,395
20241,257
2025370

Grants

High ContainmentThe Pirbright InstituteBBSRC£43.1M2017Completed
London Interdisciplinary Doctoral ProgrammeUniversity College LondonBBSRC£25.6M2020Active
London Interdisciplinary Doctoral ProgrammeUniversity College LondonBBSRC£21.8M2015Completed
Low ContainmentThe Pirbright InstituteBBSRC£21.2M2017Completed
Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership 2020University of WarwickBBSRC£21.2M2020Active
Long wavelength oxygenic photosynthesisImperial College LondonBBSRC£5.1M2025Active
Understanding the rules of impermeability in Gram negative bacteriaUniversity of BirminghamBBSRC£5.0M2025Active
Engineering Robust Synthetic Microbial Communities for Sustainable Biotechnology ApplicationsUniversity College LondonBBSRC£1.7M2025Active
The IncRNA, LRSC1 is a novel and unexpected regulator of plant responses to carbon dioxide?University of SheffieldBBSRC£1.1M2025Active
Elucidating the basis of inter-individual differences in learningUniversity of CambridgeBBSRC£1.1M2026Active
Functional RNAs as Drug Targets: Towards Manipulating the RNA Frame-Shifting Element in SARS-CoV2King's College LondonBBSRC£1.0M2025Active
Investigating ribosome hibernation and activation during the infectious cycle of microsporidiaUniversity of ExeterBBSRC£933K2025Active
BacCORAC: Bacterial modulation of plant responses via CORonafacic Acid ConjugatesJames Hutton InstituteBBSRC£883K2025Active
Deciphering human foetal eye development: Correlations with eye-like cellular assemblies derived from human iPS cellsCardiff UniversityBBSRC£882K2026Active
Developing precision tools to dissect ubiquitin signallingUniversity of DundeeBBSRC£875K2026Active
Unravelling biased signalling through a lysosomal ion channelUniversity College LondonBBSRC£857K2026Active
New paradigms for polyketide biosynthesis in the leinamycin family of potent antibioticsUniversity of BristolBBSRC£838K2025Active
Determining the brain basis of heart rate variability during extinction of learned fear and avoidanceUniversity of NottinghamBBSRC£817K2025Active
Asymmetric mitochondrial inheritance: Charting mechanism(s) and function(s) during animal developmentUniversity College LondonBBSRC£812K2026Active
The role of biofilms in driving AMR-hypervirulence convergence and pathogenicity in K. pneumoniaeUniversity of BirminghamBBSRC£782K2025Active

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