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UK builds World’s first fully-automated drug discovery facility

A unique project to develop technology to drive fast and effective drug discovery was announced today by Business Secretary Greg Clark. Based at the Rosalind Franklin Institute in Harwell, Oxfordshire, this new project will pioneer fully-automated hands-free molecular discovery to…

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The Rosalind Franklin Institute – Institute to harness disruptive technology to transform drug discovery

Business Secretary Greg Clark today announced funding for a series of ambitious technology projects that will transform the way medicines are discovered, enabling the pharmaceutical industry to develop groundbreaking drugs faster, cheaper and better than ever before. The projects are…

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Prestigious Award for Institute Theme Lead

Professor Adam Nelson, theme lead for Next-Generation Chemistry for Medicine & Biology at the Rosalind Franklin Institute and Deputy Director of the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology at Leeds University has received a prestigious international award: the European Federation…

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First funding announcement

The Rosalind Franklin Institute, a new national centre for interdisciplinary science, announces its first capital investment today. The namesake of the institute, the pioneering X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, was one of the key figures in the discovery of the structure…

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