King's College London Medical Engineering Centre of Research Excellence (360G-Wellcome-203148_Z_16_Z)

The proposed Centre in Medical Engineering focuses on medical imaging, and is a renewal of our existing Centre. Our vision is to bring together teams from multiple scientific disciplines to identify and solve complex multi-factorial challenges, focusing on the most important clinical and biological issues. By combining expertise in biomedical and clinical research with excellence in underpinning sciences of imaging engineering & physics, computational and mathematical approaches and imaging chemistry, we will deliver impact that improves the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric, oncological and cardiovascular diseases. The Centre will have a unique combination of characteristics that allow delivery of this vision. The current critical mass of imaging scientists combines with cutting-edge facilities across multiple imaging modalities, strong industrial links and our location within a major hospital campus to create an exciting, synergistic environment where the most challenging questions can be addressed. In addition to producing world-leading outputs, the Centre infrastructure will accelerate translation to clinical benefit and industrial uptake. The Centre will act as a focus for recruitment of leading international talent and training of the next generation of research leaders, enhancing excellence. We will make a major contribution to public engagement, enhancing the strong current activity.