“This isn’t blind optimism."

From the ambitious programmes we're backing to our commitment to building transparently, CEO @ilangur.bsky.social + Chair Matt Clifford reflect on ARIA's journey so far in @thetimes.com, as we work to transform the future of the UK.

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This Friday, we’ll launch our £46m Sustained Viral Resilience programme. We’ll fund teams in synbio, immunology + AI to engineer the innate immune system for durable, broad-spectrum protection against respiratory viral threats. Read the thesis now: link.aria.org.uk/sii-progthes...

AI Scientists – autonomous systems that conduct entire research workflows – could fundamentally transform breakthrough research.

Next Tuesday, we're launching a funding call to test what's actually possible.

Stay tuned.

What’s the greatest hurdle in improving food security: the science or the system? Join us on 16 October to hear from an expert panel + ARIA Creators and get a taste of tomorrow’s crops. Register here: link.aria.org.uk/VC-WFD-BS

On Friday, we're launching a major new funding call: backed by £55m, Precision Mitochondria (led by Nathan Wolfe) aims to make the mitochondrial genome programmable in vivo.

Read the programme thesis here + stay tuned for more: www.aria.org.uk/opportunity-...

We are excited to share our latest Corporate Plan, Building for Breakthroughs, outlining our vision for building breakthroughs right here in the UK. Discover how we're empowering bold ideas and the people behind them. 🚀

Read the full plan here: link.aria.org.uk/cp25

We’re excited to welcome Ant Rowstron as ARIA’s first Chief Technology Officer. Ant will be a driving force for attracting bold, new technical ideas to ARIA. He'll help refine our strategy, champion our programmes, and consolidate ARIA as a place for scientific talent to thrive.

The nine teams we're funding in Synthetic Plants are paving the way for more productive, resilient, and sustainable plants. 🌱

Discover how they'll deliver growth in agriculture for the UK + beyond: link.aria.org.uk/sp-c-bs

Missed the ARIA Summit, or want to rewatch your favourite talk?

From Dame Kate Bingham on the lessons from the Vaccine Taskforce to Sir Demis Hassabis on his early career, dive into our Summit highlights: link.aria.org.uk/summit-bluesky

We've recently welcomed three new Non-Executive Directors to our Board. Their combined entrepreneurial experience in tech, AI, and science will help us unlock huge potential for the UK’s R&D ecosystem. 🚀 (1/2)

What a week...

Our first Summit brought the ARIA community together for the first time, where we dug into the transformative research we’re funding + what's needed to translate it into real-world impact 🚀

We’re backing 9 UK-based teams to use AI to unlock transformative improvements in our critical infrastructure as part of our Safeguarded AI programme.👇[1/3]

We’re excited to announce the first 10 teams we’re funding in Robot Dexterity 🦾 Working on Technical Area 1, they’ll focus on improving the skills and dexterity of robots to create more useful machines. (1/3)

Call for feedback 📢 We know there’s a growing need for greater modularity, interoperability, and standards in robotics. We’re inviting manufacturers, researchers, investors, regulators, and users to tell us what’s needed to make breakthroughs. Participate by 28 Feb: link.aria.org.uk/rd-ta3survey...

Working across disciplines – from neurosurgery to engineering, ethics, + inclusive design – teams will build approaches around patients’ + clinicians’ lived experience, unlocking treatments for more conditions than ever before. Discover their work: link.aria.org.uk/pnt-creators-bluesky (3/3)

👀 Our next round of seed funding is coming soon – this time in our Programmable Plants opportunity space. Sign up to hear when the call goes live 👇

link.aria.org.uk/pp-signup-bl...

In this extended conversation, davidad, @yoshuabengio.bsky.social, Nora Ammann +
@adammarblestone.bsky.social dive into TA2 of our Safeguarded AI programme and the opportunity to build a new organisation that advances safe AI systems through quantifiable guarantees: link.aria.org.uk/safeguarded-...

Meet our Creators + discover what they’re working on 👇

link.aria.org.uk/srb-creators... (4/4)