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Engineering Biology in Cambridge

 

Relevant funding opportunities for researchers in engineering and synthetic biology

Latest Funding Opportunities

Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills. You must demonstrate appropriate and relevant research, technical or innovation experience. You are not eligible to apply if you hold or have held a post or position at lecturer level (or...

The ESRC have announced their New Investigator Grant scheme. This scheme is suitable for early career researchers who have yet to make the transition to be an...

Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) are looking to fund bold ideas within the Programmable Plants opportunity space with up to £500k each.  ...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has pre-announced their Proof of Concept call, due to open on 12th March, to support the commercialisation of research. ...

Trinity College and the University of Cambridge’s new £48 million programme enabling fully funded PhDs has been launched. It is seeking the brightest minds from across the world to conduct ground-breaking research, creating the next generation of pioneering treatments, technology and services....

The Royal Society Research Culture Award is awarded annually to an individual or team for outstanding and sustained work in the improvement of the research system/research culture. The award will recognise a wide variety of contributions to improving science including, but not limited to:...

The Royal Society Hauksbee Award is awarded for outstanding achievements in science to an individual or team whose work is mostly ‘behind the scenes’ or in support, including technicians, research office staff or other contributors who might not normally be recognised. The award is named after...

Are you ready to take the next step in advancing your bioscience research towards impact? BBSRC Follow-on Fund is now open! Apply by 26 March for up to £800,000 to progress your research towards innovation for a new...

The University is receiving a lot of interest from funders wanting to support work with AI. School PIs who work with AI and Machine Learning are invited to attend a showcase with our colleagues in the Cambridge University Development and Alumni Relations Office in February....

Funding will support incoming or outgoing placements for knowledge exchange, relationship building or skills development, including with partners in policy, industry and third sector, or placements which aim to create impact outside academia. Proposals must...

This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio. If selected, you’ll also take part in learning and development...

This funding scheme supports early-career researchers from any discipline to establish their research identity and lead innovative projects that advance understanding of human life, health, and wellbeing....

UKRI has pre-announced their Future Leaders Fellowship Round 10 call. This scheme aims to support the most talented...

We are excited to announce that the Mastercard Foundation and University of Cambridge Climate Resilience and Sustainability Research Fund 2025 Call is now open. This initiative aims to foster collaborative research between Africa and Cambridge based researchers with research...

We are pleased to announce that Round 2 of the Royal Society’s 2024-25 Wolfson Fellowships scheme will be opening next week  (22nd January), and the University’s internal selection process will now commence. ...

The Parke-Davis fund was given to the University of Cambridge to pay for fellowships so University biomedical scientists could visit a laboratory in the USA or Canada, or for a laboratory in Cambridge to host an academic from the USA or Canada. For details of the fellowship,...

The Carbon Technology Research Foundation is seeking to identify and then fund research into specific scientific problems which are inhibiting the progress of biotechnological routes to greenhouse gas removals from the atmosphere and oceans.

This is a two-phase...

The Milner Therapeutics Consortium Call for research proposals is now open! The deadline for applications is 7th March 2025. Our pharma partners in the Milner Therapeutics Consortium have identified topics for challenges that are a current priority for external collaboration with academics....

The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to stimulate efforts to translate scientific discoveries and engineering developments into methods or tools that address problems in basic research to understand disease, or in applied research to assess risk, detect, prevent, diagnose...

The scheme is jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the Royal Society. The Royal Society recognises that diversity is essential for delivering...

The Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) programme allows a UK registered business or not for profit organisation, (which we will refer to collectively as the ‘business partner’ from now on) to partner with a ‘knowledge base partner...

The Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program at the University of Cambridge are issuing a...

Cambridge NeuroWorks is proud to introduce the Cambridge NeuroWorks Fellowship Programme, and we are inviting you to apply for one of two transformative fellowship streams in this pioneering initiative. This Fellowship programme, powered through our partnership with the ...

The purpose of this engineering-oriented notice of funding opportunity announcement (NOFO) is to encourage submissions of exploratory/developmental Bioengineering Research Grant (EBRG) applications to demonstrate feasibility and potential utility of new capabilities or improvements in...

The purpose of this engineering-oriented notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) announcement is to encourage submissions of exploratory/developmental Bioengineering Research Grant (EBRG) applications to demonstrate feasibility and potential utility of new capabilities or improvements in...

The Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge invites expressions of interest from early career researchers who wish to be sponsored for external fellowships to establish an independent research group.

Successful candidates will be of the highest calibre, with an exceptional...