Closing date: 25 June 2026
The strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) funding aims to support large team-based curiosity-driven bioscience discovery research projects.
Projects are expected to generate new fundamental biological knowledge of broad and long-term significance, changing how we think about bioscience within and likely transcending their immediate fields. They should have the potential to make transformational, not incremental, contributions to our understanding of the principles which govern biological processes and systems, thereby contributing to our understanding of important ārules of lifeā.
Projects must be primarily within the remit of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and can investigate ideas within or across any scale of biological organisation from molecules to organisms and populations. Applications which take multimodal and multiscale approaches, integrating data-driven and experimental approaches from different bioscience disciplines, are particularly welcomed.
Proposals must demonstrate:
- potential for major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems
- a fully integrated team science approach
- the need for longer and larger-scale funding
- enhancing the capability and capacity of UK biosciences
Projects can be up to 5 years in duration. The full economic cost (FEC) of a project must be over Ā£2M. BBSRC will fund 80% FEC.
For more information and to apply see HERE.
