The Royal Institution of Great Britain

Research

About our research

The Davy Faraday Research Laboratory team is made up of chemists, doctors, physicists and engineers who work together to make magnetic nanoparticles to diagnose health problems, like cancer, and also help to treat them.
Visit our labs

Visitors to the RI are able to see through a glass wall into a real working lab with hi-tech machines running.
History of research at the Royal Institution

For more than two hundred years the Royal Institution of Great Britain has been at the centre of scientific research in this country. Some of the major scientific discoveries of the last two centuries have been made here.