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.
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RECRUIT — Grants for International Recruitment
🇩🇰NNF · Denmark
Supports Danish institutions recruiting international academic talent across major career stages.
Rice One Small Step Grant
🇺🇸Rice OoI / Rice 360 / BME · United States
Funds Rice laboratory teams running final technology experiments before a startup or licence through grants of up to USD 100,000.
SOSV NY (formerly IndieBio NY)
🇺🇸SOSV · United States
Invests in early-stage biology and life sciences startups and provides a six-month New York City residency.
Stanford Bio-X IIP Seed Grant — Round 13
🇺🇸Stanford Bio-X · United States
Funds Stanford faculty collaborations exploring high-risk interdisciplinary bioscience with translational intent.
Technology Leadership — Genomics Stream
🇨🇦PIC · Canada
Funds commercialization pathways for genomic tools for pulse and cereal crop improvement through Canadian crop innovation.
UCSF Catalyst Awards
🇺🇸UCSF IV · United States
Supports UCSF investigators with seed funding that starts healthcare innovation and accelerates patient-facing pilots.
Wellcome Career Development Awards
🇬🇧Wellcome · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom mid-career researchers to expand leadership, interdisciplinary scope, and research impact.
Wellcome Early-Career Awards
🇬🇧Wellcome · United Kingdom
Supports early-career United Kingdom scientists with career development and research funding to grow independence.
Georgia FAST Grant Phase 0
🇺🇸UGA Innovation Gateway · United States
Funds Georgia-based small businesses hiring a grant writing consultant to prepare a competitive SBIR or STTR application.
Brint Family Translational Research Award
🇺🇸FFB · United States
Funds preclinical translational partnerships for companies advancing Friedreich ataxia therapies.
BBSRC sLoLa
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom large-team bioscience projects through collaborative grants for high-impact innovation.
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.
Innovate UK Venture Builder Pilot
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom university spin-outs in frontier AI, engineering biology, and advanced materials manufacturing.
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.
Bakar Award
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds UC Berkeley STEM faculty moving research discoveries toward commercially viable products and services.
Bakar Award — UC Berkeley / UCSF Collaborative
🇺🇸Bakar Fellows Program · United States
Funds joint UC Berkeley and UCSF teams translating translational research into healthcare impact.
BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Supports early-career United Kingdom bioscientists with fellowships that build independent innovation leadership.
BBSRC Follow-on Fund Two
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom teams through follow-on funding to move discovery innovation toward commercialization.
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.
Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
Coefficient · United States
Supports biosecurity research, policy work, and prevention planning for pandemic preparedness.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom biosecurity teams with innovation in sensing, diagnostics, and preventive systems.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-based organisations developing biosecurity innovations across biodetection, AI diagnostics, and non-pharmaceutical protective systems for national security.
Biosecurity Frontiers
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom innovators building systems to detect and respond to biological risk faster.
BIRAC Research, Development & Innovation Fund (RDIF)
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds Indian deep-tech biotech startups, SMEs and large industries scaling indigenous manufacturing.