The Rosalind Franklin Institute, established in 2018 with UK government funding, is focused on bringing transformative changes to the life sciences through interdisciplinary research and technology development. The Franklin has constructed itself around five themes, which make up its core teams:

Artificial intelligence and informatics group, led by Mark Basham
Biological mass spectrometry group, led by Josephine Bunch and Zoltan Takats
Correlated imaging group, led by Angus Kirkland
Next-generation chemistry group, led by Ben Davis
Structural biology group, led by James Naismith

The institute hopes that progress in these five areas will allow innovators to see the biological world in new ways, moving from single molecules to entire systems.

Located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, the group is named in honor of Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958), an English chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA, RNA and viruses. It was formed by a group of 10 university partners from across the UK, alongside Diamond Light Source and UK Research and Innovation’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (UKRI-STFC).

The heart of the Rosalind Franklin Institute is a new hub building located at Harwell. The 5300m2 building is a flagship new addition to the campus, complementing existing facilities.

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