UKRI Mid-Range Equipment Funding is Here!

Unlock Your Research Potential: UKRI Mid-Range Equipment Funding is Here!

Great news for bioscience researchers across the UK! BBSRC have just released the ALERT 2025 equipment funding opportunity awarding £200, 000 – £1.5 million per application. This is a fantastic opportunity to bring high throughput automation to your research. Give us a call and we can help you apply. Bring high throughput colony screening, picking and imaging to your lab in 2026. The closing date for applications is January 20th 2026.

Is my research eligible for ALERT 2025 equipment funding?

ALERT 2025 is open to research organisations, researchers and research technical professionals who are eligible for BBSRC funding. You could be in with a chance to upgrade your workflows – as long as you are:

1. Working to advance our understanding of the complex and dynamic processes that govern life.
2. Wish to apply that knowledge for the benefit of society and the economy.

What automation equipment could I get with this grant?

This funding is an incredible opportunity. You could get your lab our fully-integrated microbial colony picker, PIXL Dark, with a robotic arm and all the accessories. Automate the picking of 437,760 colonies a month (based on a 24 hour run) to achieve a reliable cost effective method for precision colony picking. No need to wash or change the picking tips between organisms – our PickupLine is optimised to be microorganism agnostic.

Or even our high throughput microbial array screening robot, ROTOR+. Create and screen vast microbial libraries at game-changing densities and speeds. Using sterile ready-to-use replica plating pads, ROTOR+ reliably supports liquid pinning to and from 96 and 384-well microtiter plates, and agar pinning at densities of 96, 384, 1536, and even 6144 (that’s a whole yeast knockout library on one plate).

Apply for ALERT 2025 funding Now: The closing date for applications is January 20th 2026.