King’s College London has a history of excellence in generating and improving new innovative technologies from research for patient benefit and wealth creation. The disciplines of Medicine, Dentistry, Psychiatry, Biomedical & Health Sciences and Nursing & Midwifery invested a combined £220 million in research in the year 2007-8.

King’s works closely as an academic partner with three NHS foundation trusts: Guy’s and St Thomas’; King’s College Hospital, and the South London and Maudsley. The College and the NHS trusts already work closely in all three types of National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) research centres, including a Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre: one of only five such centres in the UK. King’s is the only university to be an academic partner in all three categories of research centre. Our NHS partner Trusts serve around 60 per cent of London’s population (some five million people), giving the academic-clinical partnership unique opportunities to translate ground-breaking research into direct patient benefits for a large and diverse population. This successful partnership has recently been formally accredited as King’s Health Partners, www.kingshealthpartners.org, one of the UK’s first Academic Health Sciences Centres (AHSCs). King’s also hosts six prestigious Medical Research Council (MRC) Centres, more than any other institution.

Combined with this access to the clinical environment, our wealth of multidisciplinary expertise offers partner companies access to a critical mass of integrated research and key opinion leaders in the development and clinical application of new technologies. Working closely with industry is pivotal to the success of our mission to drive pioneering technologies to market and create healthcare solutions that will improve the lives of patients. 

King’s College London is one of the world’s top 22 universities (2008Times Higher-QS World University Rankings) and is in the top group of UK universities for research earnings. A multi-faculty, research-led university based in the heart of London, it has a strong commitment to supporting the knowledge economy and through King's College London Business, www.kcl.ac.uk/business offers a range of excellent research and commercial opportunities for business and the wider community. This activity is a key part of achieving the College’s mission to translate its ideas, research and skills into innovative new products and services that are of real commercial value.