Harwell shines a light on collaboration

The HealthTec cluster in Harwell is able draw on the expertise and strengths across 200 organisations based at the site, such as the space and computing clusters. The crossfertilisation of ideas across different fields is typified by Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility at Harwell.

Its purpose is to produce intense beams of light whose special characteristics are useful in many areas of scientific research.

The intense beams of light that it can produce have many uses for aerospace and engineering component design as well as investigating protein structure for new drugs. Cross fertilisation has helped to grow several areas of production simultaneously, with the site due to expand by more than 1,000,000 sq ft in the coming years.