Funding opportunity

Funding opportunity: Pre-announcement: 2025 to 2026 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants

Apply for funding to undertake large team-based fundamental bioscience research projects which push the frontiers of human knowledge.

Your project should:

  • have the potential to lead to major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems
  • demonstrate the need for longer and larger scale funding
  • demonstrate a fully integrated team science approach
  • significantly enhance the capability and capacity of UK biosciences

This is a pre-announcement, and the information may change. Stage one of the funding opportunity will open on 8 April 2025. More information will be available on this page then.

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For help and advice on costings and writing your application please contact your research office in the first instance, allowing sufficient time for your organisation’s submission process.

For questions related to this specific funding opportunity please contact bbsrc.lolagrants@bbsrc.ukri.org

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