Strategic Goals
Through a unique integration of disciplines, we will develop disruptive new technologies designed to tackle major challenges in health and life science. This will accelerate the discovery of new treatments for chronic diseases affecting millions of people around the world.
Our Strategic Goals guide the Franklin and ensure we achieve our fundamental aims:
Delivering world class science
Franklin technologies should be innovative in their design and application. These technologies will be developed in partnership with and sought after by the community.
Building a legacy to be proud of
The Franklin should leverage government investment to become a global centre of excellence – training the next generation in collaborative science.
Securing Future Success
The Franklin aims to build global networks to develop our technologies and ensure that, once they are matured, they are adopted into the community.
Our Science Strategy seeks to focus the Franklin’s research and unite our researchers around our Technology Innovation Challenges and Life Science Challenges:
From our Director
Radical innovation is driven by clear goals. Our aim is to create innovative technologies to transform our understanding of life, and our new strategic challenges will give us even greater focus and drive to achieve this.
Our challenges are unashamedly ambitious. We are striving to develop techniques that push the boundaries of what is possible in biological imaging and biochemistry to tackle the biggest challenges in health and life sciences.
The challenges will unite our researchers, which include internationally-renowned physicists, chemists, computer scientists and biologists, into agile and dynamic matrix-style teams.
Our successes will depend on our close working relationships with our funders, University members, industry and other national institutes. Being located on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, in a cluster of national research facilities including Diamond Light Source and the Mary Lyons Centre, also allows us to harness the strength of long-term UK research investment.
Our PhD students and early career researchers are exposed to multiple scientific disciplines including physical sciences, chemistry, computing, and biology and leading-edge imaging and chemical techniques. Through providing this unique training we are building much-needed skills capacity in UK research.
As a national Institute we will continue to support the wider UK research community by prioritising open science, openness of data, sharing of tools, sharing of workflows, and rolling out our innovations to researchers in the UK and beyond.
If our strategy is successful, we will provide vital technological innovations to accelerate discovery in the UK life sciences sector, allowing the development of new diagnostics and treatments to improve health.
