Biosecurity Frontiers
Supports United Kingdom biosecurity teams with innovation in sensing, diagnostics, and preventive systems.
The Biosecurity Frontiers competition is a UK-only themed call funded by the Cabinet Office through UK Defence Innovation, seeking innovative proposals to help deliver the ambitions of the 2023 UK Biological Security Strategy and the 2025 National Security Strategy. The programme defines biological security as protection from biological risks — whether naturally occurring, arising from accidental …
Funds innovations across biodetection and biosurveillance, AI-enabled diagnostics and vaccines, and non-pharmaceutical protective systems to advance UK biological security against natural, accidental, and deliberate threats.
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