An Update on The Franklin COVID-19 Work
The Franklin has demonstrated the ability to make discoveries at the pace necessary to be relevant to an unfolding pandemic.
PhD Studentships at The Franklin
The Rosalind Franklin Institute is now recruiting students for its first PhD cohort, who will start in September 2021. Our one-of-a-kind PhD programme will recruit exceptional students to work on research projects. These projects will cross disciplines, have real-world impact,…
The Franklin is collaborating on a new £4m high performance computing facility
The University of Birmingham, a Rosalind Franklin Member, has today announced that it has been awarded £4m for a major project to develop a computing system aimed at helping researchers to speed up the scientific discovery process and provide new…
Franklin staff are the first users of Diamond’s new J08 branchline
A key milestone has recently been achieved at the soft X-ray spectro- and tomo-ptychography branchline (J08) at Diamond. It is celebrating the success of its first user from The Rosalind Franklin Institute (The Franklin). Using the new technologies, the team…
Funding awarded to develop a vaccine against HIV
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Award 2020 are Professor Quentin Sattentau (Oxford University) and Professor Ben Davis (Rosalind Franklin Institute and Oxford University). The team will receive an award of £300,000 over…
New Grant will Electrify Life Sciences with Breakthrough Technologies
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, working with partners MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) and Diamond Light Source, have been awarded a £25m grant from Wellcome to support the development of a trio of electron imaging physical sciences technologies with…
Franklin Centenary Competition Winners Announced
Earlier this year, as part of our Rosalind Franklin centenary celebrations, The Franklin launched two competitions – an image competition and an undergraduate essay competition. We are now delighted to announce the winners of those competitions. Essay Competition Given the…
Next major milestone reached on The Franklin Hub building
A major milestone has been reached with the building phase of the Rosalind Franklin Institute now complete. The building, which sits on the Harwell Campus, will open in 2021. The next stage of development is the commissioning phase when all…
New tool opens the door to light driven in-cell chemistry
A team of scientists, led by Professor Ben Davis, Science Director for Next Generation Chemistry at The Franklin, and Professor Veronique Gouverneur at Oxford University have created a light-activated system that allows new side-chains to be grafted on to proteins,…
Prestigious medal awarded to Franklin theme lead
Professor Ben Davis has been awarded the Davy medal from the Royal Society. Professor Davis, of the Rosalind Franklin Institute and University of Oxford, was awarded the medal for inventing powerful chemical methods that directly manipulate complex biological molecules, enabling…