Imperial and King’s plan to join UKCMRI

Imperial College London and King's College London are set to join UCL and the other partners behind the world-leading medical research institute: the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI). UKCMRI's goal is to understand how living things work and to use that knowledge for the benefit of humanity. It will find ways to prevent and treat diseases affecting people today - including cancers, heart disease and stroke, infectious diseases including influenza, tuberculosis and malaria, disorders of the immune system, and neurodegeneration. The pioneering laboratories will become a world class facility for medical research with 1,500 staff, strengthening the UK's reputation as a centre for excellence for medical science and helping to maintain the country's competitiveness in science and healthcare. The institute is being built within the exceptional cluster of biomedical research already carried out in London. It will bring together biologists, chemists, physicists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians with some of the UK's leading hospitals to focus in new ways on understanding the underlying causes of health and disease. UKCMRI's neighbours include the British Library and St Pancras International at Somers Town in north London.