Cows, apples and DNA – Cambridge artists’ new animation for our Campus

What do apple trees, Nobel Prizes, cows, and world-changing innovation all have in common? Well, they’re all part of a new animated journey across one of Europe’s most extraordinary places, the Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Illustrated by local artist James Norton, and some of his students at Anglia Ruskin University, the short animation takes you on a virtual bike ride past Cambridge’s most iconic landmarks, from Newton’s apple tree to the pub where the structure of DNA was first announced and on to the world-class research happening right now on the Biomedical Campus.

Home to three research-focussed NHS hospitals, one of the UK’s top-ranked medical schools, and globally leading organisations including AstraZeneca, Cambridge University, GSK, Cancer Research UK and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, the Cambridge Biomedical Campus binds together healthcare, academia, and industry like nowhere else. Highlighting not only the scientific excellence on Campus, but the impact it has globally, from pioneering radical treatments to next-generation medical technologies. 

Whether you’re a patient, partner, or just curious about Cambridge, it’s well worth a watch.