Synthetic Biology grants
Explore grants for synthetic biology companies. This directory includes funding for engineered organisms, biomanufacturing, biofoundries, bio-based chemicals and materials, and the tools behind them, from research councils, bioeconomy programs and foundations.
Showing 1-24 of 938 grants
BBSRC-STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom startups working on biological-in-nature technologies through BBSRC STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio to move ideas toward practical impact.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Industrial & Environmental Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Marine Bio-Based Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.
CBE JU: Nutritional Food Ingredient Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.
CBE JU: Safe Bio-Based Ingredients for Home & Personal Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Biotech Biorefineries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M industrial project that scales biotechnology into sustainable biorefineries and market-ready bio-based products.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Residual Biomass Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.
Wellcome Discovery Awards
🇬🇧Wellcome · United Kingdom
Funds established United Kingdom investigators in bold health research with long-term flexible scientific support.
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: full stage
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for independent bioscience research in a host laboratory.
Eureka Biotech Call for Projects (Appel à Projets)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Supports multinational biotech cooperation for cross-country biomedical and agricultural innovation.
DARPA BTO Office-wide BAA
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Funds United States convergence work in biology, neurotechnology, and synthetic biology for strategic defense purposes.
Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
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.
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.
Innobooster Grant
🇩🇰Innovationsfonden · Denmark
Funds Danish small businesses and entrepreneurs for knowledge based technology development with co investment support.
R&D Tax Credit — Income Tax Credit (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports established United States companies with income tax credits tied to qualified innovation spending.
R&D Tax Credit — QSB Payroll Offset (Section 41) — TY2025 / Filed
🇺🇸IRS · United States
Supports United States small businesses through payroll tax offsets when they fund qualifying innovation activity.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports translating decades of ageing biology into biotech or pharma proofs-of-concept that prevent, delay or revert age-related disease.
CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Biotech for Regenerating Agricultural Soils
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports scaling deep-tech for soil health, sustainability, and resilience of EU agriculture.
UKRI translation: MRC proof of concept: stage two
🇬🇧MRC · United Kingdom
Funding for invited academic-led translational health projects.