Funding Opportunity: BBSRC Life Science Research using the Human Spaceflight Analogue “Bed Rest”

Call status: Open
ESA Letter of Intent deadline: 4 November 2013
BBSRC Letter of Intent deadline: 4 November 2013
BBSRC proforma deadline: 13 December 2013
ESA application deadline: 6 January 2014

BBSRC have announced that they will support UK researchers in the biology of ageing field to participate in the European Space Agency's Announcement of Opportunity for Bed Rest experiments.

BBSRC will invest up to £3M to support UK components of applications submitted to this call and will work closely with the UK Space Agency to coordinate this activity.

Further information via BBSRC website.

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