Through its Pilot Project Fund, AIBIO-UK supports innovative, interdisciplinary projects that apply artificial intelligence and data-driven approaches to bioscience challenges. The projects below showcase the breadth of research enabled through AIBIO-UK funding and highlight the publications, software tools and community resources generated by award holders.

The following projects have been funded through the first AIBIO-UK Pilot Project Awards scheme:

1. A multimodal AI-driven framework for Bioscientists: from bulk to single-cell and spatial data (Teesside University)
2. Empowering Biomedical Researchers to Build FAIR Domain-Specific Datasets for fine tuning pretrained NLP models through hands-on training course (University of Hertfordshire)
3. Open Access AI Models for Detecting Positive Selection (European Molecular Biology Laboratory – European Bioinformatics Institute)
4. Making Structure Prediction of Protein Complexes Accessible to the Bioscience Community (STFC)
5. Open-Source Tools for Text-mining PubMed (University of Liverpool)
6. Applying machine learning tools to soil health datasets (University of Edinburgh)
7. Developing a Shared Understanding: Building an Ontology and Tagging System for Community Engagement (University of Lincoln)

The AIBIO-UK FlexiFund is designed to help you run community events and activities. It aims to provide financial support for the exploration and development of innovative activities to support AI in the Biosciences. Click here to apply.

The following projects have been funded through the AIBIO-UK FlexiFund support scheme:

1. 17th Aberystwyth Bioinformatics Workshop (Aberystwyth University)
2. G2W Genomics to Whole-cell (University of York)
3. AI4NZ Conference (Aberystwyth University)
4. MetaBeeAI: implementing LLMs for assessing combined pesticide risk in bees (University of Oxford)
5. AI Hackathon for Livestock Data (University of Surrey)
6. ISRC Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired Artificial Intelligence (ISRC-CN3) Summer School 2025 (Ulster University)
7. iNUTRI: interdisciplinary consortium for advancing NUTRItion (University of Aberdeen)
8. Neuroinformatics Unit Open Software Week (University College London)
9. Seismic Senses’ stand at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition (University of Oxford)
10. MASAMB 2025: Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular Biology (Natural History Museum, London)
11. Artificially Ever After: AI & Biology Mini-Series (Artificially Ever After Ltd)
12. AI Readiness in Omics: Seminars + Hackathon (University of York)
13. AI for Ecology Workshop: Harnessing AI to Accelerate Solutions for Biodiversity in Crisis (Lancaster University)
14. Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium 2025 (Francis Crick Institute)
15. Crick BioImage Analysis Symposium Napari Workshop 2025 (Francis Crick Institute)
16. UCL NeuroAI Annual Conference 2025 (University College London)
17. AI-Enabled Functional Multi-Omics Integration Seminar (Quadram Institute)
18. GirlsWhoML: Building Inclusive AI in the Biosciences Community (Teesside University)
19. Manchester Cell-Matrix Centre Hack the Matrix (University of Manchester)
20. Workshop on use of AI for biomedical data cleaning, annotation and interoperability (EMBL-EBI)
21. Edinburgh BioHackathon 2026 (University of Edinburgh)
22. AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond 2026 (University of Bristol)
23. ISCB-UK 2026 Student Symposium (Robinson College, Cambridge)
24. Machine Learning for Omics Research: Networking, Opportunities and Innovation (University College London)