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…
Electron Tomography Research Placements
The scheme We are offering established researchers (post PhD, with at least 3 years of guaranteed salary funding beyond the sabbatical) the opportunity to spend a sabbatical at the Rosalind Franklin Institute. The goal of the scheme is to disseminate…
Unique optical imaging platform arrives at Franklin to revolutionise study of living systems
A first-of-its-kind piece of imaging technology arrives at the Franklin this week, with the promise of revolutionising the way scientists observe living human cells. The Biophotonic Correlative Optical Platform (BioCOP) will allow researchers to study biological systems across multiple spatial…
Develop your career at the Franklin
The Franklin is looking for talented researchers embarking on their first fellowship to join us. We believe that The Franklin offers a unique environment for research, in which early career researchers can thrive. Our work here at The Franklin will…
Can you help spot nanoparticles?
Our Artificial Intelligence team, alongside researchers from Diamond Light Source and University of Oxford, need your help! The team are looking to better understand the properties of nanoparticles catalysts. Nanoparticles are very small particles, which range between 1 – 100…
The Franklin welcomes first international visiting researcher
We are delighted to welcome our first international visiting researcher, Professor David W. McComb, who will be part of our Correlated Imaging team. Such a partnership is central to enabling the Rosalind Franklin Institute to achieve the vision set out…
Call for University Partner(s) in Chemical Microbiology
As part of our next phase of development at the Franklin, we have identified Chemical Microbiology as a priority activity. We believe the interface between both pathogenic microbial targets and the products of microbial biosynthetic clusters is area ripe for…
Franklin Chair awarded DBE in New Year’s Honours
Chair of the Franklin Board for Trustees, Dr Vivienne Cox, has been appointed Dame of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year’s Honours. The award is one of the most senior awards given by the Queen, appointing members to…
Franklin and Oxford Pharmacology Announce Strategic Partnership in Next Generation Chemistry
The Rosalind Franklin Institute and the University of Oxford’s Department of Pharmacology have entered into a strategic partnership for Next Generation Chemistry. Formed around the lab of Professor Ben Davis, Director of Next Generation Chemistry at The Franklin, the partnership…