National Biofilms Innovation Centre 

The National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre funded by BBSRC and Innovate UK. NBIC was launched in 2017 by its four lead Universities (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Nottingham and Southampton) and is led by four Co-Directors: Professors Cait MacPhee, Rasmita Raval, Kim Hardie and Jeremy Webb respectively and CEO Jo Slater-Jefferies. With a consortium of 72 academic partner institutions across the UK, NBIC is the central hub where academia, industry, government and public policy come together to tackle the grand challenges biofilms present, impacting $5 trillion per annum in global economic activity - from food and health to ships, clean water and energy.
 
Find out more at https://www.biofilms.ac.uk