Biotechnology for a Sustainable Bioeconomy

The aim of the co-funded call is to contribute to transforming the global economy from a dependence on fossil raw material to a sustainable bio-based economy. The submitted pre-proposals must be multidisciplinary and they will include at least one of the following scientific approaches:

• Synthetic biology for the design and construction of new biological parts, devices, and systems or re-design of existing, natural biological systems for useful purposes by use of e.g. (but not limited to) orthogonal bio-systems, regulatory circuits, minimal genomes and protocells.

• Systems biology for the optimisation of biological processes, including investigation of the regulatory mechanisms in intra- and intercellular processes for bio-production, modelling, development of new computational methods and/or other new methodologies.

• Use of bioinformatic tools (e.g. data standardisation, modelling, open repositories) for the identification and utilisation of metabolic pathways. Datasets can have different origins, e.g. appropriate datasets on genomics, phenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, transcriptomics, etc.. Also included are mapping and exploitation of cellular processes and metabolic capacities for bio-production and for strain/variety improvement.

• Biotechnological approaches (possibly in combination with chemical ones) to transform bio-based building blocks into high added value molecules in a sustainable way

Funding: €100,000 total for the Israeli partner
Duration: 3 years

Pre proposal deadline: 2.3.17

Israeli applicants should contact Chief Scientist of the Minsitry of Health, Dr. Ami Ben -Yehuda:  ahmi.by@MOH.GOV.IL , to review and approve submission prior to application. 

Pls. note that in most cases applicants may hold only one MOH grant at any given time. Please check eligibility.