National Biofilms Innovation Centre

南安普顿大学将代表NBIC联盟的主要机构（南安普顿大学、利物浦大学、诺丁汉大学和爱丁堡大学）获得该奖项。南安普顿大学还将负责向NBIC财团的牵头机构支付资金。资助人将是Jeremy Webb（首席研究员，通讯），代表NBIC联盟首席调查员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。它们是抗菌素耐药性（AMR）的主要原因，预计到2050年将导致全球GDP损失100万亿美元，并造成1000万人死亡。生物膜是慢性感染的主要原因，每年给NHS造成20亿英镑的损失。生物膜造成的污染、能源损失和损害影响着英国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将把来自各个工业部门的英国公司与英国最好的生物膜研究聚集在一起，以加速将新技术应用到公司产品和服务中。在那些公司还没有准备好抓住市场机会的地方，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成功。snbic将为行业合作伙伴提供一个重点，让他们在英国各地进行生物膜研究，简化知识转移，促进合作。NBIC将与工业界合作，制定部门路线图，确定部门未满足的需求，以及满足这些需求的关键科学、商业、技术和监管障碍。路线图将为NBIC科学战略的演变提供一个关键背景。NBIC将利用在研究、设施和人员方面的现有投资来解决近期和长期的工业和社会挑战，并为加速采用新的生物膜创新和技术建立一条途径，同时显著促进该领域训练有素的研究人员队伍的扩张。我们将通过量身定制的科学、创业和领导力培训，培养下一代生物膜领域的领导者，并与新加坡scielse生物膜中心开展学生和员工的国际交流。我们将与所有大学博士学院合作，以期提交2019年DTP招标。我们将利用NBIC合作伙伴丰富的外展和参与经验，分享和开发适合英国中小学、教师持续专业进修、科学节、青年团体和社区组织的活动。

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.