Part of the Mary Lyon Centre
Advance sits within a centre known for specialist work in mouse genetics and disease model research.
A Purpose-Built Training Centre & Facilities Offer
Advance brings together expert-led scientific training and professional facilities in one environment at Harwell. It exists to support better work through practical learning, flexible space, and access to a setting shaped by specialist scientific expertise.
Who Are We?
Part of the Mary Lyon Centre at MRC Harwell
Advance sits within a scientific environment shaped by specialist research, technical expertise, and long-standing work in human disease studies. That context gives the training and facilities offer a strong foundation, connecting it to the people, standards, and setting that support serious scientific work.
Based at MRC Harwell
It is part of a research setting built around scientific capability, technical expertise, and applied work.
Located on Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Advance is based within a wider campus environment shaped by research organisations, specialist facilities, and scientific collaboration.
Shaped by working scientists
The training and facilities reflect the standards, practices, and ways of working found in a live scientific setting.
World-leading facilities, organisations, and scientific collaboration
Based at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus
Advance is based within Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, a major research and innovation campus in Oxfordshire. Harwell is presented as a supercampus with extensive scientific infrastructure, organisations, and teams working across science, technology, health, and innovation. For Advance, that location adds practical value as well as context: it places training and facilities within an environment built around serious work, collaboration, and scientific activity.
To Raise the Standard of Science, Build Specialist Skills, and Provide a Professional Environment for Learning, Collaboration and Practical Work
On the training side, that means helping people build practical capability, strengthen best practice, and improve the quality of the work they take back into their role.
On the facilities side, it means giving organisations a flexible environment for meetings, training, events, and practical sessions. Together, those two offers support stronger work across the wider community.
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Offers
Two Core Offers
Training and facilities, built to work together
Training
Expert-Led Courses for Scientists
Practical, rigorous training designed by working scientists for working scientists.
Facilities
Purpose-Built Spaces for Research and Work
Modern laboratories and meeting spaces available for hire by research teams and organisations.
Audience
Who We Work With
Advance serves scientists looking to deepen their skills, research teams needing equipped space and expert support, and organisations across campus and beyond seeking to strengthen their scientific capability and practice.
ScientistsResearch teamsCampus organisationsExternal partners
Partnership
Beyond Training and Facilities
Advance can support bespoke training delivery, hosted events, and collaborative arrangements tailored to your organisation’s needs. If you have a specific project or capability gap in mind, we’re ready to explore what’s possible together.
- Host a custom training programme
- Design a collaborative research project
- Plan a dedicated facilities arrangement
Choose your Path Forward
Start with training, explore our facilities, or get in touch to discuss what works best for you.
