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Sustainable Pharmaceuticals from plants
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Projects
• Disciplines • Genetics, bio-synthesis, bioinformatics, biology, agronomy,
agriculture, agri-engineering, micro-biology, engineering,
industrial biotechnology, analytical chemistry, chemical
engineering, pharma regulation
• Bio-medical • TB, Anti-biotic resistance, Cancer, Dementia, Diabetes
• BioPesticides / Integrated Pest Management
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Projects
Collaborators : N America, S America, Africa, Australia/NZ, Western Europe, UK
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Sources of funding
• Catalyst funding
• Agri-Tech, IB Catalyst, BioMedical Catalyst
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership
• TSB Feasibility
• WG SMART
• Marketing and Processing Grant
• LINK
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BEACON
• “BioRefining Centre of Excellence”
• “Converting plants to products”
• “taking laboratory research to economically
viable industrial applications”
• “A flexible and modular plug and play, multi-
feedstock pilot processing plant.”
• “Associated Expertise”
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Where BEACON fits
• Range of equipment and experienced
operators
• Can try before you buy
• Range from a quick ‘Look see’ through to
a more substantial ‘Process Development’
• Breadth and Depth of knowledge
• The people have a ‘Can Do’ attitude !!
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So, what’s your project ?
• AND,
• Why are you doing it ?
• What are you trying to achieve ?
• Where can you get some cash to do it ?
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Funding
• Innovate UK
• Range of calls for different project types
• Research Councils
• Funded Research
• Studentships
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Funding
• Welsh Govt
• SMART
• WEGF
• A4B
• NIBB networks
• BIV
• Proof of Concept
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General
• There is no such thing as a free lunch !
• This is not “FREE MONEY”
• A lot of funding is competition based
• each project is scored and funding starts for highest
scored projects and works downwards until money is
gone
• Make sure the project fits the business
• preferably has to be done anyway
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Application
• Don’t just slap some words together and expect
everyone to realise how brilliant your project is !
• Feedback is valuable
• Get it and use it
• Don’t leave the application to the last minute
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Academic Partners
• Make sure you’ve got the right academic
partner(s)
• Make best use of their fund-able contribution
• Do NOT let the academic partner(s) run-off with
the project
• Do NOT let the academic partner(s) leave
everything to the last minute
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Finances
• Generally actual eligible costs claimable in
arrears
• So you’ve got to spend it before you can claim it back
• Business contribution can be cash or in-kind
• In kind is typically people time and/or materials
• Do NOT underestimate project management
time required
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