London’s health system serves the most diverse, densely populated region in the UK. UCL’s Bloomsbury campus sits at its heart, within the NHS West and North London Integrated Care Board area and the Knowledge Quarter, where outstanding organisations such as The Francis Crick Institute and The Alan Turing Institute collaborate within a 15-minute walk of our main campus.
Our relationships with healthcare partners are fuelled by a shared purpose to transform lives and combine clinical expertise with research capabilities so breakthroughs reach patients faster.
Our partnerships extend beyond the NHS. We work with local authorities and across London and nationally, bringing academic research, health improvement and community initiatives together for the benefit of local people.
We also work across the world on research collaborations with leading universities to student exchanges and agreements with business and industry via the Global Engagement Office
UCL collaborates with outstanding organisations close to our main campus, creating one of the largest academic health science ecosystems globally.
NHS Partners
Including University College London Hospital, Royal Free, Great Ormond Street, Moorfields, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, North London, Central and North West London and Whittington Health
NIHR Biomedical Research Centres
Translating breakthroughs into clinical solutions, supported by clinical research facilities for early-phase trials and specialist clinical trials units
Francis Crick Institute
Francis Crick Institute UCL is a founding partner of this world-leading biomedical research centre in London focused on understanding the fundamental biology of health and disease.
UCL-Tsinghua health partnership
UCL holds a strategic partnership with the world-leading Tsinghua University (China), working together to establish a global academic health science system for the future.
UCLPartners
Bringing together researchers, NHS, industry and others to harness research and innovation for better patient care and a healthier population.
Industry partners
Access support from UCL Translational Research Office (TRO) experts for strategic biomedical research collaborations and to address therapeutic R&D challenges.
Capital projects in partnership with the NHS
Our major capital projects with NHS partner hospitals bring doctors, researchers and patients under one roof to create world-leading centres of excellence.
Shaping Policy
As a world-leading research university, we are at the forefront of shaping national and international discussion on prevention and health equity, through high-profile research and policy initiatives
Bench to bedside:
An interconnected ecosystem
UCL is unique in its ability to discover, create, translate and implement new healthcare science discoveries and has built up an ecosystem that has created one of the largest translational clinical portfolios in the UK.
- 120 projects in development from discovery to market launch.
- 14 spin-outs and licensees commercialising advanced therapy innovations
- Approx 70% of UCL’s annual total research awards are for health research – more than £500m
- £3 billion in external investment between 2021 and 2025 to turn research into real-world applications, including treatments that reach patients (through UCL Ventures)
Practical co-ordinated support
Our researchers and clinicians receive practical, co-ordinated support from experts in a world-class environment. State-of-the-art research technology platforms, an advanced research computing centre and our comprehensive clinical trials units enable bench-to-bedside research to translate discoveries into life-changing treatments and cures.
Research Technology Platforms
A network of sustainable world-class science and technology platforms, ensuring our researchers have access to equipment, data and expertise.
Advanced Research Computing
UCL's research, innovation and service centre for the tools, practices and systems that enable computational science and digital scholarship.
Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit
UCL's Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit collaborates with researchers to design, conduct, analyse and publish clinical trials and other well-designed studies.
UCL Consultants
A leading academic consultancy in the UK making it straightforward for external organisations to work with UCL academics
UCL Ventures
UCL’s expert commercialisation partner, bringing brilliant ideas to life - and to market.
Engage with us
Contact the Health Partnership team to find out more about opportunities to collaborate and get involved
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