BBSRC Impact Showcase 2025
30th Anniversary Special
For three decades, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been a beacon of leadership, supporting and enabling cutting-edge bioscience research and innovation that has helped improve lives and livelihoods for people around the world. As we celebrate this milestone, hear from Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, BBSRC’s Executive Chair, as she reflects on a 30-year journey driven by commitment, collaboration and innovation.
Welcome message by Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Welcome message by Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
BBSRC supports world-class bioscience to deliver a healthy, prosperous, and sustainable future. BBSRC’s investments help bioscience deliver world-class outputs, outcomes and impacts to society and the economy. In 2023/24, BBSRC ‘core’ expenditure was £481.6 million. In addition, BBSRC supported a wide range of funded activities in collaboration with all other Research Councils and Innovate UK across UKRI'.
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
BBSRC Executive Chair
Contents – use the top navigation bar to read showcase sections
Impact showcase 30th anniversary special
Our investments over 30 years
Celebrating the people behind the bioscience
Collaboration, partnerships and knowledge exchange
Celebrating the people behind the bioscience
Research and innovation infrastructure
Transformative technologies
Sustainable agriculture and food
Bioscience for an integrated understanding of health
Advanced manufacturing and clean growth
Understanding the rules of life
About BBSRC
As the UK’s major public funder of world-leading bioscience research and innovation, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council's (BBSRC) vision is to advance the frontiers of biology and drive towards a healthy, prosperous and sustainable future.
Some of the institutions key to meeting this vision are BBSRC’s strategic partnerships with universities, of which there are 15. Also mission critical are the 8 specialist bioscience research institutes that BBSRC strategically funds:
- Babraham Institute
- Earlham Institute
- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS)
- John Innes Centre
- The Pirbright Institute
- Quadram Institute
- The Roslin Institute
- Rothamsted Research
Find out more about BBSRC’s work and strategic priorities by reading our Strategic Delivery Plan 2022-2025.
Contact us
Impact narratives and case studies provide an important evidence base to support the case for continued investment in world-class bioscience.
Get in touch with us to discuss BBSRC’s research outcomes and impacts or to tell us about your own:
Emma Lambourne, Senior Manager, Impact Evidence
emma.lambourne@bbsrc.ukri.org
Rosie Ford, Manager, Impact Evidence
rosie.ford@bbsrc.ukri.org
Dr Beverley Thomas, Associate Director, Evidence and Evaluation
beverley.thomas@bbsrc.ukri.org
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