Advance Training Centre: Scientific training at MRC Harwell

Advance is a newly designed scientific training centre located at MRC Harwell. Purpose-built to deliver our world-class practical and theoretical training courses, our laboratories and training rooms are also available to hire; providing you with the ideal environment to advance your skills and knowledge. We are expanding our catalogue of courses so get in touch if you would like to partner with us.

All Courses

See here for all our technical training courses in Genetics, Pathology, Transgenic Technologies and Lab Skills!

Visiting us

We’re one of the oldest institutes in the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire. See here for transport and local accommodation.

Advance facilities

Our training laboratories, conferencing and meeting rooms are available to hire for events. See here for details.

Partner with us

We are looking to collaborate with different organisations to provide high-quality training courses. Get in touch here!

  • Since taking the course last spring I took your advice and have changed the way I am breeding to maintain our colony. This has a huge positive impact on not only the amount of cages in use, cost savings including genotyping but of course also the 3Rs

    - Advanced Mouse Genetics

  • Thank you all for a great week. We all agree that this has been the best, most productive course we’ve been on. The company has been brilliant and we hope we will all be able to keep in touch in the future.

    - Cryopreservation

  • Excellent course with great trainers. Content and teaching ideally tailored to establish grounding and skills answered individual questions/needs.

    - Mouse Necropsy and Tissue Processing

  • I found the course very informative. I am still fairly new to transgenic colonies and still have lots more to learn. Very much enjoyed the course thank you.

    - Entry-Level Mouse Genetics