Biotech grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Biotech grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for drug discovery, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and life-science research from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Biotech in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 265-288 of 775 grants
EIC Accelerator Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges — Stage 2
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds advanced innovation projects advancing robotics and physical AI deep-tech initiatives toward scalable outcomes.
Advanced Innovation Challenge: Translating Disruptive NAMs into Practice
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports ARPA inspired high risk demand driven pilots translating new approach methods into practical deep tech practice.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
CRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship — Seed
🇺🇸CRF · United States
Runs students and early career scholars with mentoring support for CRF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.
CRF Research Grant
🇺🇸CRF · United States
Administers research teams and institutions for CRF Research Grant in biotechnology, medical technology, and synthetic biology.
EIC International Trade Fairs Programme 3.0
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports EIC beneficiaries' participation in major trade fairs across the EU, MENA and the US.
EIT Digital Co-Creation Accelerator
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.
EUREKA Eurostars (Calls 10 and 11)
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
SPRIND Challenges
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.
SPRIND Funke
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.
'Proof of market' to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.
Accelerating the Development of Prophylactic Vaccines Against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) in Sub-Saharan Africa
🇪🇺EDCTP3 · European Union
Funds clinical trials of prophylactic vaccines against neglected tropical diseases such as schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis and leprosy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Advanced Innovation Challenges – Pilot
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.
Advancing Cell Secretome-Based Therapies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early clinical trials of therapies built from the molecules cells secrete rather than the cells themselves, aiming for an off-the-shelf alternative to cell therapy.
Alternative biomanufacturing routes for natural and synthetic rubber
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds research into biomanufactured alternatives to imported natural rubber and fossil-based synthetic rubber for automotive, healthcare and industrial uses.
Bio-based and biodegradable delivery systems for fertilising products to reduce microplastics pollution & promote soil health
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds research into bio-based, biodegradable delivery coatings for fertilisers that replace today's microplastic-shedding polymer coatings.
Bio-based drop-ins/smart drop-in platform chemicals, via cost-effective, sustainable and resource-efficient conversion of biomass
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds a full-scale biorefinery that produces bio-based drop-in platform chemicals able to compete directly with their fossil-based equivalents.
Bioengineering in the Space Environment
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 200,000 euros to study bioengineering business ideas that use microgravity.
Bioprospecting and optimised production of marine/aquatic natural products in the omics & artificial intelligence era
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds biodiscovery projects that use AI and digital tools to find and sustainably produce new natural compounds from marine and freshwater organisms.
Bioprospecting and optimized production of the terrestrial natural products: new opportunities for bio-based sectors
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies discovering and scaling up bioactive natural compounds from land-based organisms for pharma, cosmetics, food and other markets.