Synthetic Biology grants in the United States

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.

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Supports biosecurity research, policy work, and prevention planning for pandemic preparedness.

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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.

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Funds organizations conducting preclinical vaccine development for CEPI priority pathogens and Disease X exemplars through CEPI's Innovations call.

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Funds accredited research institutions developing treatments for congenital dystroglycanopathies with grants up to $50,000.

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Funds accredited research institutions developing treatments and care improvements for congenital-onset laminopathies with grants up to $100,000.

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Funds global teams developing drug, biologic, dietary, or microbiome-based interventions that target placental and gut inflammatory pathways to improve fetal growth outcomes in low-income countries.

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Supports United Kingdom human organ engineering collaborations focused on translational tissue platforms.

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Runs a 10-week, no-cost, non-dilutive accelerator for early-stage security, resiliency, and dual-use founders, from Pre-Seed through Series A+, culminating in enterprise pilots and investor-ready pitches.

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Funds global teams researching novel approaches to overcome infection, inflammation, and microbiome-related barriers that reduce the effectiveness of food fortification programs.

Offers pitch time, mentoring and investor exposure to five category-winning startups.

Awards up to $250,000 in cash and in-kind prizes to Tufts-affiliated founders.

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Funds secondments of staff between partner organisations worldwide so researchers and R&I staff gain cross-sector, cross-country and cross-discipline experience.

Pays equity-free cash prizes to exhibiting startups that pitch live on the main stage at GITEX AI Kazakhstan.

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Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in Europe, or abroad with a mandatory return phase, to build international research experience.

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Supports registered nonprofits with in-kind software and cloud credits to strengthen mission operations.

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Provides venture studio support, go-to-market coaching, and startup growth services through cohort engagement.

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Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Offers breakthrough hardware startups coaching and up to €4,000 in travel support.

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Offers early-stage founders startup credits for compute on AWS so teams can prototype and launch without immediate spend.

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Offers provider-backed startups additional AWS startup credits for advanced architecture, deployment, and customer growth through the portfolio program.

Awards $250,000 a year to an 18-30 tech innovator fighting extreme poverty.

Awards up to $40,000 to student-owned startup ventures pitching like a VC round.

Awards $1 million in seed funding to the winning student-led startup each year.