AI&I Away Day 2022
On October the 18th, the artificial intelligence and informatics team had their first ever away day. The away day, which Mark Basham (director of AI&I) hopes to become an annual event, was an opportunity for the team as well as…
Nanobody Discovery Hub at The Franklin: a one-day workshop on the generation and use of nanobodies
With funding from the BBSRC Bioinformatics and Biological Resources scheme, we are setting up a hub for nanobody discovery at the Rosalind Franklin Institute with the overall aim of developing and expanding the use of nanobodies as molecular probes for…
Franklin Director becomes New Vice President (Non-Clinical) at the Academy of Medical Sciences
We are delighted to announce the election of Professor James Naismith FMedSci to the position of Vice President at the Academy of Medical Sciences today. In this role, Jim will represent the expertise of non-clinical disciplines in the delivery of…
Dr Michael Grange receives Wellcome Career Development Award
Michael Grange is a group leader at the Franklin specialising in electron cryo-tomography. In his own words: “My research group is really focused on bringing structural biology techniques into a contextual relevance. We want to be able to look at macromolecular…
SME competition offers Franklin expertise for research challenge
UK life science SMEs could win access to the latest technologies and high-level scientific support worth up to £50,000 in a competition launched by the Rosalind Franklin Institute today, at Bioforward 2022. The Franklin is the national institute developing disruptive…
Llamas vs. Viruses at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Earlier this summer, we took part in the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition with the University of Reading to explain how we are working with llamas including Fifi to help us fight viruses, such as Covid-19. The Royal Society Summer…
Our First Work Experience Week
This summer we hosted our first work experience week with four year 12 students from Oxford Spires. One of the students, Tristan, wrote a piece about their week: Synthesising aspirin Throughout our work experience at the Rosalind Franklin Institute, we…
Lab-derived nanobodies move closer to being potent addition to pandemic toolkit
The rapid development of nasal sprays to treat future respiratory viruses is a ‘real possibility’ after scientists showed how to use structural insights to improve the potency of lab-derived nanobodies against Covid-19. The team had previously demonstrated that nanobodies – a…
Discovery of new Covid infection mechanism offers clue to SARS-CoV-2 leap to humans
One of the best-known aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic is that the virus ‘jumped’ into people from animals – perhaps bats or pangolins – in a process known as zoonotic transfer. What hasn’t been clear to scientists is exactly how,…
Team Nanobodies Win Royal Society of Chemistry Prize
Team Nanobodies, led by The Rosalind Franklin Institute, have been named the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Chemistry Biology Interface Division Horizon Prize, celebrating the most exciting chemical science taking place today. The highly collaborative team was led…