BBSRC 2025 Transformative Research Technologies (25TRT)

The BBSRC 2025 Transformative Research Technologies funding opportunity aims to enable the next generation of cutting-edge research technologies with transformative potential in biosciences research. It supports applications for early-stage development of novel techniques and technologies that have the potential to enable transformative step changes in research capability. Awards will support small and short early-stage pilot studies directed towards the development of a new technology with transformative potential for the biosciences. The research should have the potential to deliver a substantial improvement versus the current state-of-the-art, rather than an incremental improvement, and therefore enable new avenues of bioscience discovery research. Being targeted at early-stage research, the funding opportunity intends to support technology development where little to no preliminary data exists. The outcome of the project does not necessarily need to be a fully-fledged tool but could be the demonstration of proof-of-concept, or the production of a prototype for further development.