The 2025 RIPEN Hub funding call is now open! Scroll down to see which of the three funding streams may best apply to you.

The deadline to apply to this funding call is by midnight GMT time on the 6th of June, 2025.

Please note - to be able to apply, you have to be a member of the RIPEN Hub. Click the button below to join for free.

Funding Streams

The RIPEN Hub will receive £250,000 per annum from the BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) - Diet and Health Open Innovation Research Club to fund research across three streams. The three streams are:

  • Feasibility Award, (a maximum value of £100,000 with matched funding from an industrial partner)

All projects being funded through the RIPEN Hub are eligible for BBSRC follow-on funding,  link: https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/biotechnology-and-biological-sciences-research-council-follow-on-fund/