National Biofilms Innovation Centre

南安普顿大学将代表NBIC联盟的牵头机构（南安普顿大学、利物浦大学、诺丁汉大学和爱丁堡大学）接受该奖项。南安普顿大学还将负责向NBIC联合体的牵头机构支付资金。赠款保持器将是Jeremy Webb（主要研究者，通讯），代表NBIC财团主要研究者Jeremy Webb（南安普顿）、Rasmita Raval（利物浦）、Cait MacPhee（爱丁堡）和Miguel Camara（诺丁汉）"。生物膜是一些最紧迫的全球挑战的核心，并对整个工业部门产生相当大的经济影响。它们是抗生素耐药性（AMR）的主要原因，预计到2050年将造成100万亿美元的全球GDP损失和1000万人死亡。生物膜是慢性感染的主要原因，每年花费NHS 20亿英镑。生物膜的污染、能量损失和破坏影响了英国700亿英镑的食品行业、2.8万亿美元的消费品行业和1170亿美元的全球涂料行业。生物膜管理对于提供清洁和全球可持续的饮用水和粮食安全至关重要。国家生物膜创新中心（NBIC）将提供一个生物膜可以有效控制和利用的未来，为我们合作的公司增加价值，并为英国各地的世界级研究提供影响途径。NBIC将为英国各工业部门的公司提供最好的英国生物膜研究，以加速新技术在公司产品和服务中的采用。如果公司还没有准备好抓住市场机会，我们将提供世界一流的创业培训，以最大限度地提高我们的分拆成功NBIC将为行业合作伙伴提供一个重点，以获得英国各地的生物膜研究，简化知识转移和催化合作。NBIC将与行业合作，制定行业路线图，确定行业未满足的需求，以及满足这些需求的关键科学，商业，技术和监管障碍。该路线图将为NBIC科学战略的演变提供一个关键背景。NBIC将利用现有的研究，设施和人员投资，以解决近期和长期的工业和社会挑战，并建立一个加速采用新的生物膜创新和技术的途径，同时大大促进了这一领域训练有素的研究人员队伍的扩大。我们将开发生物膜的下一代领导者，科学，创业和领导力培训，我们将与新加坡的SCELSE生物膜中心进行学生和员工的国际交流。我们将与所有大学博士生学院进行接触，以期提交2019年DTP电话竞标。我们将借鉴NBIC合作伙伴的大量推广和参与经验，分享和开发适合中小学的定制活动和活动，为教师，科学节，青年团体和社区组织提供持续专业发展。

The University of Southampton will receive the award on behalf of the lead institutions of the NBIC consortium (University of Southampton, University of Liverpool, University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh). The University of Southampton will also be responsible for the disbursement of funds to the lead institutions of the NBIC consortium. The Grant Holder will be Jeremy Webb (Principle Investigator, Corresponding) on behalf of the NBIC Consortium lead investigators Jeremy Webb (Southampton), Rasmita Raval (Liverpool), Cait MacPhee (Edinburgh) and Miguel Camara (Nottingham)". Biofilms are central to some of the most urgent global challenges and exert considerable economic impact across industry sectors. They are a leading cause of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), forecast to cost $100tn in world GDP and 10m deaths by 2050. Biofilms are the major cause of chronic infections, costing the NHS £2bn p.a. Contamination, energy losses and damage by biofilms impact on the £70bn UK foods industry, the $2.8 trillion consumer products sector, and $117bn global coatings industry. Biofilm management is essential to deliver clean and globally sustainable drinking water and food security. The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) will deliver a future where biofilms can be effectively controlled and harnessed, increasing value for the companies we work with, and providing pathways to impact for world-class research across the UK. NBIC will bring UK companies from across the industrial sectors around the table with the best of UK biofilm research to accelerate the adoption of new technologies into company products and services. Where companies are not ready to take an opportunity to market, we will provide world class entrepreneurial training to maximise the success of our spin outsNBIC will provide a focus for industry partners to access biofilm research across the UK, simplifying knowledge transfer and catalysing collaboration. Working with industry, NBIC will produce sector roadmaps, identifying the unmet needs of the sectors, and the key scientific, commercial, technical and regulatory barriers to meet them. The roadmaps will provide a key context for the evolution of the NBIC science strategy.NBIC will leverage existing investments in research, facilities and people to address near and long term industrial and societal challenges and to establish a pathway for the accelerated adoption of new biofilm innovations and technologies, whilst significantly promoting the expansion of a highly trained researcher workforce in this field.We will develop the next generation of leaders in biofilms with bespoke scientific, entrepreneurial and leadership training, and we will undertake International exchanges of students and staff with SCELSE biofilms centre in Singapore. We will engage with all of the university doctoral colleges with a view to submitting a bid to the 2019 DTP call. We will draw on the considerable outreach and engagement experience of the NBIC partners to share and develop tailored events and activities suitable for primary and secondary schools, CPD for teachers, science festivals, youth groups and community-based organisations throughout the UK.