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Helping to build a brighter future
UK Research and Innovation Campuses
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to lead the development of diverse, cutting edge UK Research and Innovation
Campuses that contribute to global innovation and impact.Our strategy builds on the strong foundations of research centred within BBSRCs
strategically funded research institutes, which are embedded in a number of separate
and distinctive campuses and underpin key sectors of the UK economy such as
agriculture, food and drink, bioenergy, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals.
By bringing scientists and businesses together in these innovation hot spots our goal
is to enable excellent research to deliver the widest benets locally, nationally and
internationally as well as helping to meet global challenges surrounding food security,
energy security and lifelong health and wellbeing.
We have a vision:
I am an ardent believerthat investment in research
and national researchinrastructure is the best way
to generate long-term
economic growth.Professor Douglas Kell,
BBSRC Chief Executive
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Recent government investment of 44M is helping to create and support new companies
and jobs based on world-leading bioscience at Babraham Research Campus.
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BBSRC has a clear role in helping to maintain
the UKs position as one of the best places
in the world to do bioscience research. In
addition, our goal is to enable the exciting
and successful application of the outcomes
of this research to deliver the widest benet
to the UK and more widely. This includes
contributing to the creation of the best
possible environment for enterprise and
innovation in the life science sector.
We provide strategic funding to eight
research institutes, based at six separate
and distinctive campuses across the UK.
The Institutes are a major component
in delivering BBSRCs strategic priorities:
food security, bioenergy and industrial
biotechnology, and basic bioscience
underpinning health.
These six developing UK Research and
Innovation Campuses, with the institutes
embedded within them, make a keycontribution to the UK innovation ecosystem
and environment for innovation. They help
to enable economic growth, assure national
security, contribute to interactions with
important international trading partners and
support key economic sectors.
We are actively working with others to look
at the opportunities for further developing
bioscience-focussed Research and Innovation
Campuses in order to optimise their
contribution to innovation in the UK and
more widely.
We are also working to lead thinking on
understanding and capturing the ways in
which these investments bring benets
to the economy.
Since 2011, BBSRC has secured
signicant capital investment in our
Research and Innovation Campuses
with Government announcements
of investment totalling more than180M.
Our ambition for the future
By enablingcreative investment
and developments acrossthe campuses we believe
that we can drive even greaterimpact rom innovative bioscienceresearch, and achieve the widest
possible benefts or theeconomy and society.
Dr Celia Caulcott, BBSRC Director of
Innovation and Skills
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Next generation sequencing technologies, such as those at The
Genome Analysis Centre on Norwich Research Park, have huge
potential to contribute to global issues that require solutions based
on excellent bioscience.
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A leading hub of biomedical innovation in the
heart of the Cambridge cluster, Babraham
Research Campus plays a key role in
supporting the regions life-sciences network
and early-stage biomedical enterprises.
At its core is the Babraham Institute, which
receives strategic funding from BBSRC. The
Institute has a world-leading reputation in
research aimed at generating new knowledge
of the biological mechanisms underpinning
lifelong health and wellbeing, particularly
in the areas of cell signalling, immunology,
neuroscience and epigenetics.
As well as its proximity to academic centres
of excellence, Babraham Research Campus
offers exible, high quality facilities, providing
the capacity and services needed by growing
enterprises as they expand their R&D
operations.
88 companies have passed throughBabrahams bioincubator facilities to date,
raising over 410M in equity nance between
them.
Babraham Research Campus
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The latest bioincubator buildingopened on schedule in March 2012,
bringing the lab space available on
campus to nearly 8,000m2, and has
achieved full occupancy within
12 months.
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In 2011, the Government awarded BBSRC
44M to invest in Babraham Research
Campus to further deliver innovation from
the research base, generate economic growth
and create jobs.
Developments include:
A fth new bioincubator building (opened
March 2012)
Two new follow-on laboratories (one
chemistry, one biology)
Improvements to infrastructure including
roads and utilities
Improved access for
campus companies
to on site
research-led
facilities and
capabilities
Construction
and delivery
of these newfacilities is
progressing
rapidly, on
schedule and
within budget.
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Funding boost orInstitute spin-out
In 2009, Crescendo Biologics, a spin-out
company from the Babraham Institute
raised 4.5M in seed funding toadvance the development of
fragment antibody technology
platforms for the development of
novel therapeutics.
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A partnership between BBSRC, four research
institutes, the University of East Anglia, the
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital and the
John Innes Foundation, the Norwich Research
Park has one of Europes largest single-site
concentrations of research strengths in agri-
food, health and environmental sciences.
The Park is home to four world-renowned
institutes the John Innes Centre, the
Institute of Food Research, The Genome
Analysis Centre (which all receive strategic
funding from BBSRC) and the SainsburyLaboratory as well as over 30 science and
IT-based companies. Its vibrant research-
led community is working in integrated,
multidisciplinary teams to address global
challenges of the 21st century: lifelong health
and wellbeing, food security, energy security
and living with environmental change.
Norwich Research Park
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Opening in spring 2014, the Centrum building will become a hub for Norwich
Research Park, providing meeting and seminar rooms, exhibition andnetworking space, and a 130 seat restaurant and caf, together with 2,300m2
of highly exible and customisable laboratory and ofce accommodation.
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In 2011, the Government awarded BBSRC
26M to invest in Norwich Research Park to
deliver innovation from the research base and
generate economic growth and job creation.
The investment will help to create and
support new companies and jobs based on
world-leading bioscience with developments
to the Park including:
New Centrum Building and commercial
space
New Enterprise Centre
Improvements to
Norwich Research Park
infrastructure
Improvements to
public highways
High
specication IT
infrastructure
to support the
needs of thecampus users
Shared access
to research-
led facilities and
capabilities across the
Park
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Super broccoli
When a variety of super broccoli
was launched onto selected UK
supermarket shelves in 2011, it represented
a special achievement for UK bioscience a
consumer-focused, nutritionally-enhanced product
developed through a collaboration spanning more
than two decades.
BeneforteTM
broccoli, developed using conventionalbreeding techniques, was born from research on
the fundamental biology of plants and the link
between human nutrition and health at the
John Innes Centre and the Institute of
Food Research, respectively.
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Based in Surrey, The Pirbright Institute
is a unique national centre whose highly
specialised facilities, and the research carried
out therein, are central to safeguarding UK
national security by providing the capability
to control, contain and eliminate viral diseases
of livestock.
The impact of the Institutes research is
acknowledged around the globe and Pirbright
is the hub of many international research
networks and partnerships as well as being
a major provider of diagnostic services,expert analysis and advice to national and
international organisations.
The combination of innovative basic and
applied research at the Institute continues
to result in new vaccines and diagnostics in
partnership with commercial companies.
In addition, their training programmes
contribute to the development of highly
skilled people for UK bioscience businessesand to overseas trainees who then work more
effectively to combat viral diseases in their
native countries.
Pirbright Research and Innovation Campus
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With the announcement in 2011 of a
100M+ investment to support the second
phase of development of the Pirbright
campus, in addition to the 100M+ cutting-
edge high containment facilities due to openin 2014, BBSRC and The Pirbright Institute
are taking forward an ambitious plan to
develop a UK Research and Innovation
Campus which will be an unrivalled resource,
both nationally and internationally, for
researchers and industry across the animal
health sector and beyond.
Hemera, copyright Thinkstock 2012
Beating disease outbreaks
Pirbright scientists played a key role in the
successful vaccination campaign that enabled
the UK to become bluetongue free in 2008, which,
as a consequence, has been estimated to have saved
485M and 10,000 jobs.
The team are currently involved in researching theSchmallenburg virus, which causes birth defects in
new-born lambs. The aim is to conrm whether
the virus is transmitted by biting insects and
also to contribute to the development of
new diagnostic tests.
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BBSRC is actively working with key partners
and stakeholders of the three other potential
UK Research and Innovation Campus sites
which are home to research institutes
supported by BBSRC strategic funding. These
institutes are:
The Roslin Institute, part of the University
of Edinburgh
Institute of Biological, Environmental
and Rural Sciences, part of Aberystwyth
University Rothamsted Research,
Hertfordshire
This work has been given
additional impetus following
the announcement,
in Autumn 2012, of
additional capital funding
from the Government
to BBSRC for the furtherdevelopment of Research
and Innovation Campuses.
Expanding the Vision
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Researchers from TheRoslin
Institute were part of a team of
UK scientists that produced genetically
modied chickens unable to spread bird u. This
work is part of a growing portfolio of research that
The Roslin Institute is undertaking with the aim of
improving the health and welfare of chickens.
In January 2013, work began on the construction of the
14M National Avian Research Facility (NARF) at theUniversity of Edinburghs Easter Bush Campus. Due
for completion late 2014, the resources at NARF will
be made available to national and international
researchers and the facility will provide The Roslin
Institute and its partners with an outstanding
environment for undertaking studies that
will lead to major improvements in
poultry production.
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The Institute of Biological, Environmental
and Rural Sciences (IBERS) provides a
unique research base that supports food
security, bioenergy, and sustainable land
use all of which face a range of conicting
demands, both now and in a future of
predicted climate change.With the recent opening of the National Plant
Phenomics Centre (NPCC), IBERS will continue
to translate research into commercially
successful plant breeding programmes that
have considerable impact on farms.
The NPPC is unique within the UK and is
the future of agricultural and horticultural
science, where thousands of plants physical
characteristics are automatically measuredon a cyber-industrial scale and recorded
digitally. Scientists will use these data to
ask questions about plant characteristics
everything from growth rate to water use to
formation useful metabolites and how these
physical parameters are affected by genes,
the environment and the interplay between
the two.
When it becomes fully operational in 2013,the NPPC will provide data faster and
without the bias of the human hand. And by
facilitating breeding and gene identication,
this will accelerate the production of improved
cereal varieties but could be used to improve
almost any crop.
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The Broadbalk experiment at Rothamsted farm Copyright Rothamsted Research
Rothamsted Research (RRes) is the longest running
agricultural research station in the world. Some of the eld
experiments that were started in the 19th century are still
going today. Yet they have maintained their scientic and
agricultural relevance as well as providing a unique archive of
soil, crop, treatment and meteorological data going back over
150 years.Rothamsted combines this deep knowledge of agronomy, soil
science and agro-ecology with modern systems biology and
biotechnology in order to continue to deliver knowledge and
innovation to policymakers, manufacturers and the farming
community both in the UK and overseas. Indeed, the Institute
has a strong reputation for sharing its research excellence for
the benet of agriculture in developing countries through long-
term strategic partnerships.
Rothamsted has a comprehensive strategy to developinnovative solutions to increase crop productivity and quality
and to develop environmentally sustainable solutions for food
Through their 20:20 wheat programme, for example,
Rothamsted scientists are working with established partners
to seek ways aims to increase UK wheat yields to 20 tonnes
per hectare within the next 20 years. And by making the
best use of all available tools and technologies, including GM
approaches, it is hoped that this ambitious target will help
focus efforts to create multiple technologies that could benetthe quantity and quality of wheat harvests around the world.
Getting stable wheat yield increases in Africa, for example, by
two tonnes per hectare could also have a signicant impact on
global food security.
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Location of the UK Research and Innovation Campuses
Institute of Biological,
Environmental and
Rural Sciences
The Roslin Institute
Babraham Research Campus
Norwich Research Park
Pirbright Research and
Innovation Campus
Rothamsted Research
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BBSRC invests in world-class bioscience research and training on behalf of the UK public. Our aim
is to further scientic knowledge, to promote economic growth, wealth and job creation and to
improve quality of life in the UK and beyond.
Funded by Government, and with an annual budget of around 500M (2012-2013), we support
research and training in universities and strategically funded institutes. BBSRC research and the
people we fund are helping society to meet major challenges, including food security, green
energy and healthier, longer lives. Our investments underpin important UK economic sectors, such
as farming, food, industrial biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
For more information about BBSRC, our science and our impact see: www.bbsrc.ac.uk
About BBSRC
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