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Current Progress
First staff move into the Research Complex!
The first staff moved into the Research Complex at the end of January including the core RCaH team and the Oxford Protein Production Facility-UK (OPPF-UK). The first laboratories should be operational by early March. Professor Simon Phillips,Director of RCaH said "This is a fantastic new laboratory space, at the heart of a cluster of world-leading large research facilities. Scientists from many different fields, from biology to physics, will be working together in one building. We know from experience many unexpected advances take place as a result of such interactions. We can't wait to get started."
The Research Complex at Harwell (RCaH) is a new, multidisciplinary laboratory that will provide facilities for researchers to undertake new and cutting edge scientific research in both life and physical sciences and the interface between them. It is currently under construction at 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 will be 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.
