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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DBT-BIRAC Bio-AI मूलांकुर Hubs Rolling Call
🇮🇳DBT · India
Supports India-wide Bio-AI hub development through grants for teams building translational biomanufacturing platforms and partnerships.
DOST-PCHRD Health R&D Grants-in-Aid — CY2028 Funding
🇵🇭DOST · Philippines
Funds Philippine health researchers and institutes through PCHRD grants in aid to advance priority medical studies in national programs.
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: full stage
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for independent bioscience research in a host laboratory.
ERDERA — European Rare Disease Research Alliance
🇷🇴UEFISCDI · Romania
Supports Romanian rare disease groups through ERDERA partnerships building stronger diagnostic and care innovation.
Exploratory Interdisciplinary Synergy Programme
🇩🇰NNF · Denmark
Supports high-risk interdisciplinary research ideas before strong early-stage data exists.
Grand Challenges — Placental and Gut Inflammation Interventions for Fetal Growth
Gates Foundation · United States
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.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.
HOPE — Execution
Wellcome Leap · United States
Supports United Kingdom human organ engineering collaborations focused on translational tissue platforms.
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: 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.
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.
IAF-PP — Human Health and Potential (HHP) Domain
🇸🇬A*STAR · Singapore
Supports Singaporean organizations in health priorities with integrated programs that turn biomedical innovation into care outcomes.
Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program
🇺🇸Innovate Alabama · United States
Funds Alabama small businesses with active federal SBIR or STTR awards.
LifeArc Gene Therapy Innovation Fund
🇬🇧LifeArc · United Kingdom
Funds promising gene therapies for rare conditions through LifeArc's Gene Therapy Innovation Fund.
NHGRI Commercialization Readiness Pilot
🇺🇸NHGRI · United States
Funds prior NIH SBIR/STTR Phase II small businesses completing late-stage R&D and commercialization work.
NIH Blueprint Initiative: Tools for Germline Gene Editing in the Nervous System
NIH · United States
Funds developing and validating gene-editing tools in animal and other model systems used to study the human brain.
Nutrients produced by microorganisms utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers scaling up precision-fermentation microorganisms that turn captured CO2 into food nutrients.
PennCHOP Microbiome Pilot and Feasibility Grant
🇺🇸PennCHOP Microbiome · United States
Supports Penn faculty launching or expanding microbiome research through internal seed mechanisms at Penn Medicine.
PMU-B × JST NEXUS Biotechnology Joint Call
🇹🇭TSRI · Thailand
Funds Thai and Japanese teams through PMU-B and JST for biotechnology collaborations that combine complementary expertise.
Product Commercialization Program Fund
🇮🇳BIRAC · India
Funds Indian biotech startups commercializing validated products through PCP Fund grants.
Production/Distribution Facilities for Brain Cell-Type-Specific Access Reagents
🇺🇸BRAIN Initiative · United States
Supports creation and distribution of brain cell-type reagents through infrastructure grants.
Q-FASTR Development Award
🇺🇸Q-FASTR · United States
Funds Harvard biomedical investigators through sustained support to reach preclinical milestones.
Q-FASTR Pilot Award
🇺🇸Q-FASTR · United States
Supports Harvard investigators with early funding for biomedical trials and validation.