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Current Progress
Research Complex opening ceremony
The Research Complex was officially declared open on Friday 9 July 2010 by Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, the MRC Chief Executive. Venki Ramakrishnan, the current Nobel prizewinner for Chemistry, joined him in emphasizing the importance of multidisciplinary research. Visitors from universities across the UK, the Research Councils, colleagues from the rest of the RAL site, and the local MP, Ed Vaizey, who is also the Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, were able to tour the laboratories and see the first research groups already at work (click here to see photos). Science Minister David Willetts referred to RCaH in his science policy speech.
The Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH) is a new, multidisciplinary laboratory that provides facilities for researchers to undertake new and cutting edge scientific research in both life and physical sciences and the interface between them. It is located on the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) site on the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, adjacent to Diamond, the new third generation Synchrotron Radiation (SR) source. It is also close to other leading facilities on the campus: the ISIS neutron source, Central Laser Facility, Membrane Protein Laboratory, MRC Mammalian Genetics Unit and Mary Lyon Centre, and a Biological Solid State NMR Facility.
It is open, on a competitive basis, to research teams from UK universities, as well as to Diamond and RAL staff. The MRC is leading the project on behalf of RCUK, in partnership with BBSRC, EPSRC, NERC, STFC and Diamond.
