As part of its industrial strategy, the government has announced investment of over £100m to create the Rosalind Franklin Institute, to be based at Harwell in Oxfordshire.
Developed by a consortium of universities, led by Oxford, the Rosalind Franklin Institute will pioneer new technologies that will have a disruptive impact on the health and life sciences. The Institute is named after the pioneering British chemist, whose use of X-rays to study biological matter played a crucial role in Crick and Watson’s discovery of the structure of DNA. It will speed up the process of innovation by co-locating physical scientists, engineers, life scientists and industry researchers who will work together to develop new techniques and instrumentation designed to tackle major challenges in health and life sciences.
