Celebrating the third year our Artificial Intelligence and Informatics teams have hosted summer interns
We are delighted that the Franklin’s Artificial Intelligence and Informatics team have been able to host interns for a third summer. This internship is part of the wider Health Data Research intern scheme which recruits interns through the 10,000 interns…
The Franklin at Daresbury and Bluedot
This summer, the Franklin Public Engagement team, alongside staff and students attended the UKRI-STFC Daresbury Open Day on Saturday 15th July and bluedot festival from 21st to the 23rd July, where we were Making Molecular Movies – explaining the benefits…
IMAGINE – Developing the next generation of imaging technologies
A pan European consortium seeks to better understand life in its natural context by raising the level of imaging technologies and workflows. The Franklin is proud to be a partner in the recently awarded ‘IMAGINE’ grant, which is led by…
The Franklin at 5
This year we are celebrating 5 years since the Rosalind Franklin Institute became a legal entity. The Franklin was established to develop the next generation of technologies for life science, to help solve the grand challenges in human health and…
Update on Franklin leadership
Professor James Naismith, the Franklin Director, will be moving on to take up the position of Head of MPLS at the University of Oxford in late 2023. Jim has been with the Franklin since its inception five years ago and…
The Franklin Celebrates Citizen Science Month
How do we deal with the huge quantities of data collected by state-of-the-art equipment at the Franklin? By automating the tasks that would take researchers months or years to carry out manually. But even training a machine learning algorithm can…
The Rosalind Franklin Institute celebrates funding for the next three years with visit from new minister
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, the UK institute for technology in life science, has secured renewed core funding for the next three years from UK Research and Innovation’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and launched a refreshed strategy to…
Global Team Receives Support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to Develop Training, Community around New 3D Bioimaging Technology
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative awarded a two-year grant for Advancing Imaging Through Collaborative Projects to Enabling Volume Electron Microscopy: Building a Global Community and Resources. The group led by Kirk Czymmek, PhD, director of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center’s Advanced Bioimaging Laboratory, will…
NATA awards £6M consortium funding to enhance the UK’s nucleic acid therapeutics manufacturing capabilities
The Rosalind Franklin Institute is delighted to part of a second consortium, which has been awarded £6M in funding by the UKRI/MRC Nucleic Acid Therapy Accelerator (NATA). The award to an academic-industry consortium led by Professor Nick Turner at the…
NATA awards £8M consortium funding to enhance the UK’s nucleic acid therapeutics delivery platforms
The Rosalind Franklin Institute is proud to be part of the international consortium, which brings together leading academic and industrial partners, to develop novel delivery methods for oligonucleotide therapeutics. The consortium has just been awarded £8M by the Nucleic Acid…