Engineer next generation veterinary vaccine technology platforms
Closes: 16 September 2025
About the Funding
A joint BBSRC-Defra programme aims to fund ‘plug and play’ veterinary vaccine platforms, leveraging transformative technologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and cross-sector partnerships, focusing on entire platform technology pipeline from antigen discovery to delivery and underpinned by immunological understanding to address unmet veterinary vaccine needs.
Projects must be led by UK research organisations eligible for BBSRC funding.
The full economic cost (FEC) of your project will be up to £4 million. BBSRC will fund 80% of the FEC with a maximum of £3.2 million per project over a maximum of five years.
Aim
The aims of the programme are to:
- engineer next generation ‘plug and play’ veterinary vaccine technology platforms by exploiting cutting edge transformative technologies underpinned by deep understanding of host immune response and host-pathogen interactions
- characterise platforms by conducting systematic and comparative evaluation to support the ‘plug and play’ framework for developing safe and cost-effective vaccines
- embed a One Health approach that will foster the development of new vaccine technology platforms suitable for use in animals and humans