Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

Research council, England

Also known as BBSRC

United Kingdom 7 open calls

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Given in 2025 £192.0m

Typical grant £655k Middle half £493k to £909k

New grantees in 2025 4% first grant from this funder

Open calls

UKRI Translation: BBSRC Proof of Concept 2026 Closes 14 Oct 2026 9 days left International Travel Award Scheme for the Biological Sciences Closes 20 Oct 2026 · Up to £3,000 Open Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund (26BBR) Closes 19 Nov 2026 · Up to £2.0m Open Connecting Culture Fund Closes 30 Sep 2027 Open BBSRC standard research grant: applicant-led mode Rolling, no deadline · Up to £2.0m Open BBSRC new investigator award: applicant-led mode Rolling, no deadline · Up to £2.0m Open BBSRC Brazil pump-priming award (FAPPA) Rolling, no deadline · Up to £35k Open

Giving by year

£585.9m 2017 600

£291.1m 2018 561

£224.0m 2019 509

£181.7m 2020 419

£232.6m 2021 381

£257.7m 2022 484

£480.2m 2023 654

£438.0m 2024 551

£192.0m 2025 257

£79.6m 2026 94

4% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 93% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

East of England 2,739 grants · typical £298k

Scotland 1,627 grants · typical £373k

South East 1,443 grants · typical £386k

London 1,383 grants · typical £403k

North West 874 grants · typical £399k

Yorkshire and The Humber 765 grants · typical £389k

South West 669 grants · typical £378k

West Midlands 551 grants · typical £407k

Top local authority areas

Norwich 1,118 grants · typical £191k

City of Edinburgh 602 grants · typical £394k

Guildford 466 grants · typical £354k

Oxford 421 grants · typical £431k

Nottingham 405 grants · typical £364k

Kensington and Chelsea 389 grants · typical £394k

St Albans 380 grants · typical £292k

Glasgow City 376 grants · typical £414k

South Cambridgeshire 303 grants · typical £113k

Coventry 242 grants · typical £399k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

University of sheffield Understanding digit patterning and evolution across amniotes £506k 22 Jun 2026

University of Nottingham Determining the brain basis of heart rate variability during extinction of learned fear and avoidance £817k 1 Jun 2026

University of Nottingham NOBLE: New Investigator Obesity and Metabolism Network £574k 1 May 2026

University of cambridge Molecular grammar of a cell-type specific alternative splicing regulator £1.3m 1 May 2026

University of Oxford Bioengineering human lymphatic networks £1.5m 24 Apr 2026

Nottingham Trent University Enhancing welfare through cognitive assessment of parenting skills in captive managed animals £363k 1 Apr 2026

University of manchester Unraveling the Molecular Mechanisms driving Endothelial-to-Haematopoietic Transition during Blood Formation £741k 1 Apr 2026

University of Oxford Quantum Sensing in Nature and Synthetic Biology £6.0m 1 Apr 2026

University of sheffield Role of membrane surface proton diffusion in bacterial in vivo bioenergetic processes and in response to antibiotics £980k 1 Apr 2026

University Of Edinburgh Understanding trypanosome-mediated immunosuppression of B cell memory responses in cattle. £1.1m 1 Apr 2026

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