Annual Scientific Report 2015

Funding and Resource Allocation
EMBL-EBI funding remained stable in 2015. This continued support of our
member states and other funding bodies helped us retain staff, maintain our core
public resources and, thanks to additional support from the UK Government,
absorb the doubling of the data we store in our archives.
Here we show our sources of funding, and how we spent these funds in 2015. The ‘external funds’ shown here
represent funds that were available for our use in 2015, but not those earmarked for subcontractors, as part of our
grant-funded activities.
Sources of funding
Funding for EMBL-EBI in 2015, excluding sums earmarked for project subcontractors, was €67.2 million and
comes primarily from EMBL member states. Our major sources of external funding include the European
Commission (€5.5 million), the Wellcome Trust (€5.4 million), the US National Institutes of Health (€7.1
million), the UK Research Councils (€5.6 million) and the EMBL-EBI Industry Programme (€0.8 million).
We also benefit from a large number of grants from various other sources (total, €3.8 million). These major
sources of funding are shown in Figure 1.
EMBL-EBI
Industry Programme
Other €0.8M
€1.1M
Other funders
€3.8M
NIH
€7.1M
Wellcome Trust
€5.4M
Research Councils UK
€5.6M
European
Commission / ERC
€5.5M
* Figures exclude external funds passed straight through to grant subcontractors. In addition to these sums, EMBL-EBI’s funding in 2015 included
funds earmarked for project subcontractors of €5.1 million (NIH), €0.6 million (Wellcome Trust).
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