{"id":48947,"date":"2014-10-20T10:08:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=77e13cec639079c2d266a5814637125f"},"modified":"2014-10-20T10:08:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:08:07","slug":"press-release-4-million-funding-available-for-synthetic-biology-applications-in-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=48947","title":{"rendered":"Press release: \u00a34 million funding available for synthetic biology applications in defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\u2019s (<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr>) Centre for Defence Enterprise (<abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr>) is looking for innovative applications of synthetic biology for defence and security. <\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> funds innovative research that could lead to a cost-effective capability advantage for UK armed forces and national security through regular themed and enduring challenge competitions. The Synthetic Biology Applications in Defence themed competition explores the opportunities presented by synthetic biology. The total funding available for the competition is up to \u00a34 million to be split over 2 phases. Funding for the phase 1 competition is worth \u00a31 million. Phase 2 funding will be awarded to only the most successful outputs of phase 1 funded projects and is worth up to \u00a33 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>More information is available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cde-themed-competition-synthetic-biology-applications-in-defence\">Synthetic Biology Applications in Defence competition<\/a> via a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cde-webinar-synthetic-biology-applications-in-defence\">pre-recorded webinar<\/a>. The competition is open for proposals now and closes on 6 November 2014.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Synthetic biology is an emerging, multidisciplinary research area that includes engineering, bioscience, chemistry and information technology. Synthetic biology aims to design and engineer novel biologically-based parts, devices and systems, as well as redesign existing natural biological systems for useful purposes. It has the potential to address some of the more difficult problems facing UK defence and security, and opens new avenues in protecting the armed forces and civilian populations.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Petra Oyston, Principal Scientist in <abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr>\u2019s Biomedical Sciences Department says: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">The potential applications of synthetic biology approaches in defence are really exciting and wide ranging. For example synthetic biology could play a part in the development of lightweight but strong compounds, novel camouflage solutions, multi-function materials or sensor technologies for detecting explosives. We are expecting the \u00a34 million available for this initiative to stimulate a wide range of innovative and inter-disciplinary work leading to impact across defence and security capability.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The competition is seeking submissions in three areas, exploiting synthetic biology for: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the protection of the Armed Forces<\/li>\n<li>novel sensor technologies<\/li>\n<li>potential revolutions, where existing applications could be modified for a defence and security purpose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"contact\" id=\"contact_1970\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>\n<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> Media Enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press@dstl.gov.uk\">press@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              01980 658666\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              07901 892660\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative applications of synthetic biology for defence and security are being sought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}