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Business Secretary Greg Clark has announced the creation of a new institute named in honour of Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering use of X-rays to study biological structures played a key role in the discovery of DNA’s ‘double helix’ structure.The institute will have its hub at the Harwell campus near Oxford. It will bring together world-leading s…

Innovate UK and the Research Councils are seeking input from scientists and businesses over the roll out of a £4.7BN cross-disciplinary fund. This will support industry-led programmes of activity aiming to deliver economic impact, jobs and growth. Workshops have been taking place across the country with delegates from the research base and industry…

In January, the Milner Institute announced that Pfizer are the latest partner to join the Milner Therapeutics Consortium, which brings together the drug development capabilities of leading pharmaceutical companies with the ideas and know-how of Cambridge academics.The other existing industrial partners are Astex, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, Shion…