Remit queries

A list of research topics supported by BBSRC can be found in the funding areas section of the website. This list is not exhaustive and you are welcome to contact the office at any time to discuss your research.

If you are unsure whether your research is suitable for BBSRC please submit a short outline for remit guidance, either to the remit officer (details below) or to a relevant member of office staff:

Detailed costs or references are not required at this stage
Outlines should be no more than 2 pages
Background information regarding your research is not required. It is more helpful if you explain what you are going to do in your project and where the main novelty of the project lies

We can then advise where you should submit the full application.

We strongly advise you to contact us prior to submission if you are working at an interface area between Research Councils. We are in regular contact with other Research Councils to ensure that applications are assessed by the Council with the most appropriate expertise.

A common area of remit queries is disease research. In general we fund human physiology, cell biology, and genetics and genomics research relevant to understanding normal human function, but we do not fund research focused on specific human diseases and disease processes or abnormal conditions. We fund work on animal diseases but studies primarily involving animal models of human disease and human toxicology, including abnormal toxicological reactions and drug toxicity, are not in BBSRC remit.

A description of our interfaces in the areas of biodiversity and bioinformatics can be found in the downloads section of this page.

This advice relates to specific scientific remit queries about applications. For general queries about our research portfolio please see ‘Our portfolio’ in the ‘Our Science’ section.

Contact

Remit officer
remit@bbsrc.ac.uk