Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre

The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre (MIB) is a new type of university research institute positioned at the forefront of physical sciences and life sciences. Its mission is to enable the community to explore specific areas of interdisciplinary quantitative bioscience at the highest level, largely through the efforts of multidisciplinary research teams. With the support of funding from the Wellcome Trust and the Wolfson Foundation, MIB were able to construct a building designed to host an outward-looking research community.

Research within the MIB focuses around three fully complementary and synergistic research themes, with an extensive programme of technology development at the heart. Researchers in the MIB hold a total live grant portfolio worth over £40M and an annual research income of £13M. Their multi-disciplined approach to research brings together the widest range of expertise for quantitative bioscience problems. MIB focus on three “research grand challenges”.

• Industrial Biotechnology
• Energy and Biofuels
• Biomedical and Healthcare

These challenges then translate into four research themes:

• Synthetic and Chemical Biology
• Systems Biology
• Biomolecular Mechanism and & Catalysis
• Enabling Technology

The MIB also houses several Research Centres of Excellence.