Funding opportunity: 2025 to 2026 strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) grants: stage two

Apply for funding for large team-based fundamental bioscience research projects pushing the frontiers of human knowledge.

Your project should demonstrate:

• potential for major breakthroughs in our fundamental understanding of living systems
• a fully integrated team science approach
• the need for this scale of funding
• enhancing the capability and capacity of UK biosciences

The full economic cost must be over £2 million. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will fund 80% of the full economic cost (FEC).

Projects can be up to five years.

Full stage submissions are invitation only following assessment of an sLoLa outline application.