The Rosalind Franklin Institute (the Franklin) is a national research centre, funded by the UK government through UK Research and Innovation, dedicated to bringing about transformative changes in life science through interdisciplinary research and technology. Seeing life in 4-dimensions (space and chemistry) is crucial in understanding development and disease. Some of the most pressing needs for new insight in bioscience are neurodegeneration, cancer, cellular transport, metabolomics and bacterial multi-resistance.

To enable new insights for treatment researchers need new tools and methods able to probe life in new ways across scale and disciplines. The Franklin aim to impact life science delivering next generation instrumentation, in this case, for meso- and nanoscale imaging and chemical mapping of cells and tissue.