BBSRC New Investigator Award (applicant-led mode)

The BBSRC New Investigator Award (applicant-led mode) is a competitive grant to support excellent new investigator-led research across the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) scientific remit. It funds research projects, equipment, community resources, networks, summer schools and related activities within BBSRC remit including plants, microbes, animals and humans, and underpinning tools and technologies. Projects may be up to five years in duration with full economic costs (FEC) up to £2 million. The scheme is aimed at researchers establishing their independent research careers at UK research organisations eligible for BBSRC funding.

Research project funding (up to £2 million FEC), up to five years duration; covers 80% of FEC.

Applicants must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding and are intended for newly employed university lecturers, researchers at a level equivalent to lecturer in research council institutes, and fellows at a level equivalent to lecturer. Applicants must not have previously been project lead on competitively obtained research funding that included research and innovation associate (postdoctoral) staff support costs; project co-leads are permitted where they provide complementary expertise.

Apply through the UKRI funding service application portal; applicants submit a single application as project lead and must follow UKRI/BBSRC application guidance.