Synthetic Biology grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Synthetic Biology grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for engineered biology, biomanufacturing, biofoundries and bio-based materials 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 Synthetic Biology in the United Kingdom come first.
Showing 73-96 of 246 grants
Commonwealth Startup Fellowship
🇬🇧Imperial Enterprise · United Kingdom
Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.
Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Santander X UK Awards
🇬🇧Santander · Spain
Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.
TBAT 2026 Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧TBAT · United Kingdom
Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.
Innovate UK Innovation Loans (Future Economy)
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.
Innovation Vouchers
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.
CEPI Open Calls for Proposals
CEPI · Norway
Funds global vaccine and biologic countermeasure developers to build responses for epidemic pathogens.
NIA R01: Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
NIA · United States
Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.
HDF Transformative Research Award
Hereditary Disease Foundation · Global / Multinational
Funds high-impact collaborative Huntington disease teams tackling complex mechanisms and novel therapeutic strategies with advanced team science.
Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life Prize
Natural Code · United States
Pays $100,000, and up to $10 million if patentable, for solving the origin of genetic code.
Challenge Programme — AMR Diagnostics for LRTI
NNF · Denmark
Supports diagnostic innovations for antimicrobial resistant respiratory infections in Danish consortia.
Challenge Programme — Earth-Abundant Materials
NNF · Denmark
Supports interdisciplinary teams developing earth-abundant materials for climate and heavy industry technologies.
Challenge Programme — Hybrid Bio-Electrocatalysis
NNF · Denmark
Supports interdisciplinary teams exploring bioelectrocatalytic processes for sustainable materials and chemistry technologies.
LifeArc Early Ventures
🇬🇧LifeArc · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage life science ventures with seed and Series A equity across therapeutics and medical device innovation.
LifeArc Rare Disease Clinical Trials Programme
🇬🇧LifeArc · United Kingdom
Supports clinical rare-disease teams with practical trial design and execution.
CEPI Clinical Development Award — Focus Area 2
CEPI · Norway
Funds organizations conducting clinical trials of vaccine candidates against CEPI priority pathogens and viral families through CEPI's Innovations Call for Proposals.
ACHEMA Start-up Award
DECHEMA · Germany
Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Coefficient · United States
Supports biosecurity research, policy work, and prevention planning for pandemic preparedness.
Brint Family Translational Research Award
FFB · United States
Funds preclinical translational research advancing therapies for inherited retinal degeneration and dry AMD.
CEPI FA2 Exploratory Award
CEPI · Norway
Funds organizations designing and early-stage testing of new vaccine candidates against CEPI priority pathogens and Disease X viral families, with awards up to $1M over 18 months.