UKABCSA non-profit academic organisation supporting researchers, funding innovation, and advancing biotechnology and computational science worldwide.
Peer-reviewed capacity building grants, compute allocations for computational tools, and research funding awarded to international partner universities.
UKABCS connects researchers, universities, institutions and industry partners around meaningful scientific progress.
We support rigorous, open and inclusive science through funding opportunities, education, publishing, events and international collaboration.
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UKABCS Membership connects researchers, academics, students, professionals, innovators, institutions and industry stakeholders. It creates meaningful opportunities to strengthen professional connections, access specialised resources, engage with experts and explore collaboration and career development across disciplines and geographical boundaries.
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UKABCS is a co-funding partner. We cover part of the cost through donated, subsidised and cash support, and your institution or students cover only the essential part.
Shared-cost programmes with published budgets, such as Digital Campus Transformation.
Subsidised GPU hours and specialised AI research tools for your researchers.
Exchange placements across the UKABCS partner university network.
Capacity building for students and faculty in computational science.
Students and researchers from partner universities can join exchange placements. The student covers flights and visa, the host university provides accommodation, and UKABCS provides pocket money set by host country.
Flights, visa and insurance.
Accommodation and acceptance.
Pocket money, coordination and support letters.
Through our partnership with Ebonex Technologies, which has donated £50,000 in GPU compute, and with our other technology partners, researchers get subsidised GPU hours and specialised AI research tools.
Discounts of 50–70% by agreement tier.
Free tools built by researchers; pay only for compute used.
Graduation teams and scientists build tools in their specialism.
Connecting researchers, academic societies, technology pioneers, and open-access publishers across the globe.
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We support rigorous, open and inclusive science that addresses real-world challenges, strengthens collaboration across borders and accelerates innovation in biotechnology and computational research.
About our work
Our vision is a global research ecosystem where every scientist, regardless of background or geography, has the opportunity to contribute, collaborate and innovate for the benefit of humanity.
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Practical support for a connected, responsible and inclusive scientific community.
Support for research projects and capacity-building initiatives in biotechnology and computational science.
Learning opportunities, resources and practical support for emerging researchers.
Support for sharing knowledge through open science, publications and scientific events.
Collaboration across academia, industry and society to turn ideas into impact.
Inclusive opportunities that strengthen participation in the global research community.
Researchers, universities, institutions and industry partners can collaborate with UKABCS to turn research ideas into meaningful outcomes.
Explore the training, software, computational collaboration and publishing pathways available through UKABCS partnerships.
Peer-reviewed opportunities for researchers in biotechnology and computational science.
Explore programmeTraining, proposal guidance, data-management resources and learning opportunities.
Explore programmeSupport for scientific software and reproducible computational research tools.
Explore programmeFunding, mentorship and networking opportunities that empower women in science.
Explore programmeHelp to share research through publications and conferences.
Explore programmeWays for academic, industry and philanthropic partners to drive progress together.
Explore programmeAccess the relevant route for applications and peer-review activity.
Explore programmeDiscover the researchers, institutions and projects supported by UKABCS.
Explore programmeResources, training, calls and global networking for the UKABCS community.
Explore programmeMove the cards to explore the current UKABCS impact figures.
UKABCS is here to help researchers find the right route for promising work and meaningful scientific progress.
Research articles, official announcements, and grant-call releases.
What the UKABCS University Partner Programme is, how one cooperation protocol opens many benefits, and where to find each programme on our website.
A separate competitive startup support opportunity for eligible completed UKABCS graduation projects.
Comprehensive scientific eligibility criteria, institutional benefits, HPC compute credit allocations, APC publishing waivers, and step-by-step application guidelines for UKABCS research support grants.
What the UKABCS University Partner Programme is, how one cooperation protocol opens many benefits, and where to find each programme on our website.
A comprehensive impact assessment detailing how over £400,000 in donated high-performance computing (HPC) research credits, GPU node clusters, and analytical waivers are democratizing bioinformatics and computational biology worldwide.
Exovion contributes £10,000 in AI-driven analytical services and research tools for UKABCS-affiliated researchers.
A separate competitive startup support opportunity for eligible completed UKABCS graduation projects.
Comprehensive scientific eligibility criteria, institutional benefits, HPC compute credit allocations, APC publishing waivers, and step-by-step application guidelines for UKABCS research support grants.
A comprehensive £45,000 per faculty competitive grant (£27,000 UKABCS, £18,000 University) establishing a fully governed LMS digital-learning ecosystem, academic content production, and Ebonics AI integration.
Full transparency review covering peer-review protocols, audit procedures, and conflict-of-interest disclosures.
Join a growing international community working to advance biotechnology and computational science.