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UCL's Eastman Dental Hospital relocating in 2019
7 December 2018
UCLH Eastman Dental Hospital will be relocating to Huntley Street in the heart of Bloomsbury. It will become part of the largest hospital in Europe specialising in complex oral health care and advanced ear, nose and throat treatments.
Clinical research and teaching
Clinical research and teaching functions will relocate to new, state-of-the-art facilities in the Rockefeller Building, just around the corner from the new hospital. This places us at the heart of the UCL campus, next door to University College Hospital and the Macmillan Cancer Centre, hence facilitating collaborative working across teaching, research and patient care.
Our new, state-of-the-art facilities will include:
- Dedicated skills classrooms for the production of patient devices such as fixed and removable prosthetic devices.
- Laboratories with over 85 clinical skills stations with dental manikins allowing trainees to practically and safely refine skills. These spaces will enable postgraduates and CPD students to work in conditions that mimic real-life practice.
- Over a dozen dental microscopes to aid identification of anatomical imperfections and the quick detection of enamel and dentine fractures.
The new Eastman Clinical Investigation Centre (ECIC)
The Eastman Clinical Investigation Centre (ECIC) is a clinical research facility fully dedicated to clinical and translational research in the field of oral and dental diseases, with a unique track record of research grants to deliver commercial and investigator-led clinical studies.
Over the last 15 years ECIC studies have attracted more than £6M in research awards and recruited more than 3000 participants.
The ECIC will also relocate to the Rockefeller Building and will benefit from brand new facilities including:
- Eight fully equipped clinical rooms with disabled access;
- A Biobank with -20°C and -80°C freezers within a dedicated laboratory for the processing and storing of clinical samples;
- Temperature controlled storage for Investigational Medicinal Products (IMP’s);
- State-of-the-art digital dental imaging equipment including a Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) Scanner and Ultra-sound scanner;
- A reception and patient-waiting area.
The new facilities will allow us to continue to support and facilitate clinical trials, novel diagnostics, medical procedures and therapeutic studies with the aim of improving the present and future care of patients.
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering / Microbial Diseases
The research departments of Microbial Diseases and Biomaterial & Tissue Engineering will be relocating to the UCL Royal Free Campus at the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. New laboratories are planned for all activities as well as a new imaging facility.
This will allow our staff and students to forge new collaborations and enhance existing ones with academics from allied disciplines (UCL Divisions of Medicine, Surgery & interventional Sciences and Infection & Immunity) as well to develop new advanced research projects associated directly or indirectly to oral health and disease.
Specifically the new facilities will include:
- Two large microbiology laboratories;
- A new state-of-the-art shared imaging facility;
- A new biomaterials synthesis laboratory;
- New tissue culture facilities;
- A new single laboratory housing a wide range of materials characterisation facilities.