Research Innovation Campuses

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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.

Copyright Babraham Institute


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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.

Copyright Norwich Research Park


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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


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.


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

Copyright Norwich Research Park

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


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

Copyright The Pirbright Institute


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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

Copyright The Roslin Institute

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


Pirbright Research and

Innovation Campus

Rothamsted Research


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Produced by RCUKs internal service provider, March 2013

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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