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EPSRC Support by Research Area in Synthetic Biology

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. All the grants listed below have some relevance to this research area. The value of the investment is the total awarded by EPSRC and does not reflect the proportion assigned to this research area.

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Grant TitlePrincipal
Investigator		OrganisationDepartmentTotal Grant
Value (£)
3D Printing for World Class Additive BiofabricationCorner, Professor JUniversity of NottinghamResearch and Innovation 964,323
A semi-autonomous robot synthetic biologist for industrial biodesign and manufacturingBaldwin, Professor GImperial College LondonLife Sciences 884,199
Biocatalytic Approaches to the Synthetic Manipulation of SiliconesWong, Dr LUniversity of Manchester, TheChemistry 444,992
Biocatalytic Approaches to the Synthetic Manipulation of SiliconesTaylor, Professor PGOpen UniversityFaculty of Sci, Tech, Eng & Maths (STEM) 34,023
Biologically Upcycling MetalsHorsfall, Professor LUniversity of EdinburghSch of Biological Sciences 1,020,945
CBET-EPSRC - Grown Engineered Materials (GEMs): synthetic consortia for biomanufacturing tunable compositesEllis, Professor TMImperial College LondonBioengineering 441,638
CBET-EPSRC: Developing Standardized Cell-Free Platforms for Rapid Prototyping of Complex Synthetic Biology Circuits and PathwaysFreemont, Professor PSImperial College LondonInfectious Disease 507,643
COMBO: CONTROL-BASED BIODESIGN OF MAMMALIAN CELL DYNAMICSMarucci, Dr LUniversity of BristolEngineering Mathematics 1,478,669
Controlling cell-free expression with temperature-sensitive polymer-DNA conjugatesBooth, Dr MJUniversity of OxfordOxford Chemistry 284,195
Custom nanomaterials from modular synthetic proteinsParmeggiani, Dr FUniversity of BristolChemistry 1,151,785
Design the Future 2ZHANG, Dr MNorthumbria, University ofFac of Health and Life Sciences 164,124
Design the Future 2: Thinking Soils: Engineered bacteria as computational agents in the design and manufacture of new materials and structuresDade-Robertson, Professor MNewcastle UniversitySch of Architect, Planning & Landscape 598,309
Development and experimental validation of a deep-learning based pipeline for user-centric protein design.Wood, Dr CWUniversity of EdinburghSch of Biological Sciences 304,056
Enabling manufacturing of Functional Nanomaterials using SynBioSweatman, Dr MBUniversity of EdinburghSch of Engineering 528,489
EPSRC and BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthetic BiologyPapachristodoulou, Professor AUniversity of OxfordSynthetic Biology DTC 4,798,062
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in BioDesign EngineeringBaldwin, Professor GImperial College LondonLife Sciences 7,001,623
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bioprocess Engineering LeadershipLye, Professor GUCLBiochemical Engineering 4,455,440
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Bioprocess Engineering Leadership (Complex Biological Products Manufacture)Lye, Professor GUCLBiochemical Engineering 5,867,636
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Emergent Macromolecular Therapies (EMT): A National CDT linked to an EPSRC Centre for Innovative ManufacturingDalby, Professor PAUCLBiochemical Engineering 3,747,453
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated CatalysisGreaney, Professor MUniversity of Manchester, TheChemistry 5,938,236
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Chemical TechnologiesDavidson, Professor MGUniversity of BathChemistry 4,703,927
EQATA: Equitable access to Quality Antibiotic Therapies in AfricaFlorence, Dr GJUniversity of St AndrewsChemistry 605,364
Establishing a Periodic Table Toolbox for Nanoassembly and SuperselectivityHowarth, Professor MRUniversity of OxfordBiochemistry 419,309
Experimental Biology and Engineering at the Pilot Scale - Strategic EquipmentDavenport, Dr RJNewcastle UniversitySch of Engineering 1,196,635
Future Vaccine Manufacturing Hub: Advancing the manufacture and deployment of cost effective vaccinesShattock, Professor RJImperial College LondonInfectious Disease 10,097,570
Genetically Encoded Nucleic Acid Control ArchitecturesStan, Professor GVImperial College LondonBioengineering 642,353
Hijacking prenyl and geranyl transferases - A route to carry out click modifications and to enhance cellular permeability of peptidesHoussen, Dr WUniversity of AberdeenChemistry 1,032,570
LIVEBIO: Light-weight Verification for Synthetic BiologyKonur, Dr SUniversity of BradfordFaculty of Engineering and Informatics 352,363
Manufacturing in Hospital: BioMed 4.0Leese, Dr H SUniversity of BathChemical Engineering 1,046,296
Microfluidic Molecular Communications: Design, Theory, and ManufactureDeng, Dr YKings College LondonInformatics 269,351
Molecular Photonic BreadboardsLeggett, Professor GUniversity of SheffieldChemistry 7,255,283
Novel logic gates in mammalian cells based on genetically incorporated unnatural amino acidsTsai, Dr YCardiff UniversityChemistry 261,871
Optimisation of CHO for Biotherapeutic ManufactureRosser, Professor SJUniversity of EdinburghSch of Biological Sciences 3,608,961
Programmed assembly of protocellular materialsGobbo, Dr PUniversity of BristolChemistry 392,155
SynbiCITE 2.0Kitney, Professor RImperial College LondonBioengineering 3,058,262
Synthetic Portabolomics: Leading the way at the crossroads of the Digital and the Bio EconomiesKrasnogor, Professor NNewcastle UniversitySch of Computing 4,353,851

Total Number of Grants: 36
Total Value of Grants: £79,911,961

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).