UCL Hawkes Institute celebrates its launch

The Hawkes Institute is a multi-disciplinary research grouping at the intersection of UCL’s engineering and health activities that focuses on advancing healthcare technology.  It capitalises on UCL’s unique combination of research excellence in computational, engineering and medical sciences. Its formation brings together the UCL Centre for Medical Image Computing (CMIC) and the Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) to maximise synergy between these centres of excellence.

UCL Hawkes Co-Director Professor Gary Zhang said: “The UCL Hawkes Institute will have the ability to develop engineering innovations that will cut across a whole range of clinical applications”.

During the launch, guests heard from: 

• Dr Tim Bray, Clinical Co-Director, UCL Hawkes Institute 
• Dr Stefano Giuliani, Clinical Co-Director, UCL Hawkes Institute
• Professor Andy Nisbet, Interim Dean UCL Engineering 
• Professor Sarah Bohndiek, Professor of Biomedical Physics, University of Cambridge
• Professor Terry Peters, Professor of Medical Imaging, Kings College London
• Professor David Hawkes,  Emeritus Professor, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at UCL, in whose honour the Institute has been named.

The speakers emphasised the importance and advantages of strong clinical collaborations, of facilitating external collaborations and key strategic perspectives. 

Professor Dan Stoyanov, Co-Director of the UCL Hawkes Institute said: “UCL is a leader in technology and clinical excellence and the creation of the UCL Hawkes Institute will bring these closer together towards greater societal impact”.

We look forward to tackling key medical challenges through our research on healthcare technologies and ensuring that our innovative solutions reach the clinic to benefit patients.