ARIA Precision Mitochondria Programme

ARIA Precision Mitochondria sits under the Advanced Research and Invention Agency and focuses on mitochondrial bioenergetics and health. It is a grant program in the UK market, with an annual cycle and awards from £250,000 to £3 million. The median actual award is £1 million, which puts it in the same broad range as other ARIA opportunity spaces but with a narrower biological scope. Eligible applicants are for-profit R&D performers in the UK and internationally. Nonprofits and individuals are excluded, the TRL window is 2 to 5, and the same solicitation cannot be stacked with another award. The program is framed around bioenergetic engineering, so it favors teams that can translate mechanistic biology into something operational and testable. Applicants are likely to do best when they can connect mitochondrial function to a concrete health or engineering outcome rather than to broad discovery language. The program suits groups that can define a tight hypothesis, a measurable endpoint, and a credible build plan. Its annual structure makes it one of ARIA’s recurring routes for teams working at the intersection of biology and systems engineering.

No upcoming rounds verified. Cadence: Annual.