Lab Visit Grants

Who can apply: Postgraduate, Early Career, Full and Emeritus members of the Biochemical Society. You submit a summary of the work planned during the visit plus letters of support from your supervisor or head of department and from the host lab. The project must have a molecular bioscience focus. Applications may be submitted up to… What is funded: Up to GBP 2,000 towards travel and accommodation for a visit to a UK or overseas laboratory, to undertake training, strengthen a collaboration, build research capacity or analyse results. Smaller requests are welcomed. Deadline: 1 September 2026. The funder does not state a timezone for this deadline, so check the official page for the exact cut-off time. Round: Round closing 1 September 2026, for visits taking place after 1 October 2026. The scheme runs four rounds a year (2 March, 1 June, 1 September, 2 November), and the Society does not print a year against those recurring dates..

Read the full call and apply on the official page: The Biochemical Society, official page.

Who can apply

• Postgraduate, Early Career, Full and Emeritus members of the Biochemical Society. You submit a summary of the work planned during the visit plus letters of support from your supervisor or head of department and from the host lab. The project must have a molecular bioscience focus. Applications may be submitted up to six months before the visit. You must have been a Biochemical Society member for at least 12 months immediately before the deadline (six months if you joined on a multiyear membership). Membership dues are not an application fee. You cannot take funding from the same scheme in consecutive years, and no more than GBP 2,000 in total across the whole Biochemical Society grants portfolio in any three-year period. Applications are accepted from anywhere in the world, except where UN, EU or UK sanctions prevent payment. Retrospective applications are not funded.

Stage dates

Dates come from the funder's page for this round. When a round closes, the next round's dates replace these once the funder publishes them.

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