Engineering Biology in Cambridge
We are pleased to announce that Round 2 of the Royal Society’s 2026 Wolfson Fellowships scheme will be opening on 06 May 2026, and the University’s internal selection process will now commence. The programme is to enable UK Universities to strategically...
Apply for funding to pursue an adventurous, ambitious, curiosity-driven project in environmental research. We welcome:
The full economic...
The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) will soon announce the...
Four MPhil studentship awards covering fees and maintenance for Home students are available, these are funded by the Large Grant Contributions Fund at the University of Cambridge to support the Prosperity Partnership award from the Medical Research Council. These MPhil studentships will...
Apply for a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) fellowship to further your career through an early independence research fellowship.
You must:
The Cross-disciplinary Projects Fund provides funding to stimulate new collaborations and test bold ideas for cross-disciplinary projects relating to reproduction. The Lent Term 2026 round is now open! There are three funding rounds each...
The ESRC have announced their...
EPSRC IAA & Siemens Impact Starter Fund opportunity available. Brief call description below, for full information check ...
The Philip Leverhulme Prizes of £100,000 are awarded to researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising. The funding should be used for any purpose...
Starting in October 2026, a 4-year Research Studentship will be available, leading to a University of Cambridge PhD degree in the laboratory of Prof Ewan Smith.
Funded PhD Opportunity at the Department of...
The Milner Therapeutics Consortium is excited to launch its sixth call for research proposals! The deadline for applications is 13th March 2026.
Our ten pharma partners in the Milner Therapeutics Consortium have...
Funded by the Government Office for Science, the scheme supports early-career science or engineering researchers to undertake unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence community. The research topics for the 2026...
Engineering plant rubisco enzymes through high-throughput enzyme assays and cryo-EM (Plant BioDesign PhD Cambridge project). Every year plants remove over 100 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. Engineering photosynthesis is a key technological challenge for...
Apply for funding to pursue early-stage development of cutting-edge research technologies with transformative potential in the biosciences. You must be a researcher or research technical professional based at
The EPSRC has announced the Turing AI Global Fellowships. ...
Apply for funding to undertake cutting-edge Metascience research into more effective ways of conducting and supporting research and development (R&D), including the impact of artificial intelligence (AI), how to optimise research institutions and the challenges of measuring research...
Apply for funding to support research within the remit of the Medical Research Council (MRC). You must be employed by an eligible research organisation. You can involve more than one research group or
Apply for funding to support partnerships to carry out novel collaborative activities between a team of researchers, with interdisciplinarity encouraged where appropriate.
You must be employed by an
The University’s...
These fellowships are for those looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons. The aim is to give participants
...Apply for funding to support excellent investigator-led research across the breadth of Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit.You must be based at a UK research
AZ funded non-clinical PhD studentship - Experimental and computational framework for optimising dosing strategies to mitigate T-cell exhaustion in T-cell engager therapies. T-cell engager (TCE) therapies are increasingly prevalent in the clinical pipeline of pharmaceutical companies. While...
Project title - Matchmaker: Prioritising the best cell line for expressing target proteins using CRISPR and machine learning. Applications are invited for a fully funded 4-year PhD studentship based in the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, and the new AstraZeneca Discovery...
Apply for funding to pursue early-stage bioscience discovery research. Applications should open original and adventurous research avenues with the potential to transform our fundamental understanding of living systems. You must be based at a UK research organisation...
Projects should aim to generate institutional, perhaps interdisciplinary or collaborative programmes of strategic value to the University for
the promotion of education or research. Proposed projects should be transformational with a prospect of longevity and financial sustainability....
CRASSH offers support to postdocs and academic staff employed by the University of Cambridge or one of its Colleges to run a wide range of events and creative initiatives. We invite you to apply for funding and logistical support for any activity that will...
Apply for funding to explore the potential market of your engineering biology-based idea, increase market awareness and gain deeper understanding of your technology’s potential applications. You must be a
Apply for funding to pursue an ambitious, high risk and high reward curiosity-driven project in environmental research. This funding opportunity is open to research groups and individuals. Your research project must address a significant environmental science question, but we welcome...
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