Engineering Biology Centre for Doctoral Training 

EPSRC & BBSRC EngBio CDT

The Programme
The People
The Projects

Welcome to the Engineering Biology CDT

Here at the EngBio CDT, we are training the next generation of academic and industrial leaders in Engineering Biology. 

The EngBio CDT is a joint training programme between the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, offering a bespoke cohort-based training with a focus on how engineering biology concepts and technologies can be translated into productes with real-world impact.

The EngBio CDT started in 2024 and welcomed our first cohort of 13 students in September 2024.

What is Engineering Biology?

Society faces major global challenges including a need for sustainable food, materials and chemicals, solutions to combat climate change, and innovative technologies for improved healthcare. Engineering Biology (EngBio) is an emerging field at the confluence of Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, AI and Data Science. It has the potential to provide innovative solutions to these challenges by harnessing biology in new ways and creating biomimetic and engineered living systems capable of surpassing what is possible from single-discipline approaches.

Our Projects

Our Students

Cohort 1 (2024)

Cohort 1 started in September 2024. Click here to learn more about them!

Cohort 2 (2025)

We are currently recruiting for Cohort 2, and they will start in September 2025.

International Day for Biological Diversity

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Today is International Day for Biological Diversity🧫

Biological diversity underpins our whole world and we rely completely upon these resources. It is crucial that we continue to protect, develop, and research to advance our understanding of these provisions.

We caught up with Jack, one of our CDT students based in Oxford. We asked him what he was currently researching and why he was interested in Biological Diversity

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Our Partners

We are excited to be working with so many industry partners. Check out our Partners webpage for more information

Lucideon

Lucideon utilises its thousands of combined years of experience in development, analysis, and assurance to provide technical consultancy to enable, enhance, and accelerate its clients’ R&D activities.

Mewburn Ellis

Mewburn Ellis work with organisations building the brands and technologies that will define tomorrow. Mewburn Ellis can help navigate your business journey, using Intellectual Property to imagine, plan, nurture and protect your innovations and deliver them to market.

Owwash

Oxwash are revolutionising the washing industry. By uniquely combining next generation cleaning and logistics platforms, Oxwash is closing the loop in inefficient processes in the growing on-demand hospitality and catering industries.

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CDT Video Content

Meet our staff and students with our videos below!

"Engineering Biology is a very interdisciplinary research area and it can offer new solutions to a number of challenges by making sense and using tools that allow us to re-engineer living and biomimetic systems"

Dr Lucia Marucci

Professor of Systems and Engineering Biology

University of Bristol

"The course and content is reviewed continuously. Our students have a voice in how the course is being run"

Dr Jon Bath

Champion for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

University of Oxford

"Another thing that attracted me to the CDT is just being part of a cohort, so being part of a team. In the CDT, everyone is at the same level."

Cecilia

CDT Student, Oxford

EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Biology (EngBio CDT)

University of Bristol
School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology
Tankard’s Close
Bristol, BS8 1TW

engbiocdt-admin@bristol.ac.uk

 

University of Oxford
Department of Engineering Science, Botnar Research Centre, Old Road, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7LD

engbiocdt-administrator@eng.ox.ac.uk

01865 617729