Top Business Leader to Chair Rosalind Franklin Institute
Dr Vivienne Cox Appointed as First Institute Chair The Rosalind Franklin Institute has appointed one of the UK’s top business leaders to be its first Chair. Dr. Vivienne Cox will lead the Board of the new national institute dedicated to…
World’s best video camera to develop cures for deadliest cancers
The Rosalind Franklin Institute today launched an ambitious new project to build the world’s most advanced real-time high-speed video camera, the key to understanding new techniques that use light and sound to treat some of the most lethal forms of…
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…
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…
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…
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…