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Opportunity spaces are areas of research that we believe are ripe for breakthroughs. They are defined by our Programme Directors, and must be highly consequential for society, under-explored relative to its potential impact, and ripe for new talent, perspectives, or resources to change what’s possible.

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While information has been the major focus of modern biology, energy and information are both fundamental to life → bioenergetic engineering has the potential to catalyse advances on the scale of the genetic revolution.

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Life uses powerful energy building blocks, like ATP, that are unlike any used in engineering → leveraging these primitives will enable a range of bio-hybrid devices and other systems whose performance far exceeds today’s best designs.

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The feedback loop between engineering disciplines and fresh insights is accelerating → we’re at an inflection point where scientists and engineers from many disciplines can begin treating life’s energy machinery as a design space.

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Our Programme Directors are supported by a Programme Specialist (P-Spec) and Technical Specialist (T-Spec); this is the nucleus of each programme team. P-Specs co-ordinate and oversee the project management of their respective programmes, whilst T-Specs provide highly specialised and targeted technical expertise to support programmatic rigour.

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Our opportunity spaces are designed as an open invitation for researchers from across disciplines and institutions to learn with us and contribute – a variety of perspectives are just what we need to change what’s possible.

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