Great news for biomedical researchers across the UK! The MRC has just announced the upcoming equipment funding opportunity awarding £200,000 – £1 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. Pens at the ready: UKRI are open for applications 13th August to 5th November 2026.
This opportunity is open to any researcher or researcher technical professional employed at a UK research organisation that is eligible for MRC funding. You could be in with a chance to upgrade your workflows as long as your research fits within MRC scope, however applications are encouraged to be relevant to the MRC priority areas.
Applied Global Health Research
Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Population and Systems Medicine
Understanding the Emergence of Human Disease across Scales
Research into ME/CFS
Infections and Immunity
Experimental Medicine
Neurosciences and Mental Health
Artificial Intelligence, Engineering Biology and Quantum Technologies
This funding is an incredible opportunity to secure a reliable technological platform to scale up your lab’s microorganism screening capabilities. You could get your lab our fully-integrated microbial colony picker, PIXL Max, with a robotic arm and all the accessories. Automate the picking of >68,000 colonies in 24 hours with AI colony detection and classification. Secure a reliable cost-effective method for colony screening in your lab. No need to wash or change the picking tips between organisms – our PickupLineTM is optimised to be microorganism agnostic.
Our high throughput benchtop microbial array screening robot, ROTOR+, with unparalleled efficiency and reproducability. 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).
Write your application for MRC funding now: The closing date is 5th November 2026.
Talk to us about automating your workflows before you apply