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Founding Partners
SC1 is a truly integrated approach to an Innovation District that brings together seven committed partners with over a century of healthcare innovation history, and a shared purpose of tackling the lack of health equity locally and globally, to put life sciences at the heart of a major global city.
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In the Times Higher Education 2023 world university rankings, King’s College London (KCL) was listed as 10th best in the world for the subject of ‘Clinical and Health’ and ranked 8th in the world for ‘Psychology’. Notably, KCL is a proud founding partner of the Francis Crick Institute; the UK’s flagship biomedical research institute and ranks among the top universities for collaborations which benefit the economy and society (Knowledge Exchange Framework, 2022). Its innovations have produced over £1 billion in either investment or share sale proceeds in companies it has helped launch and was ranked first in London for equity investments into spin-outs in 2022.
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The Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is consistently ranked as the number one Trust in London for clinical research. It operates across five leading hospitals that provide a full range of lifelong, general and specialist care, as well as clinical research, innovation, education, and training. The Trust is notable for their leadership in cardiovascular, respiratory and children’s health.
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The King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of London's largest and busiest teaching hospitals and operates across five sites. The Trust specialises in nationally and internationally recognised liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology and foetal medicine work.
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The SLaM NHS Foundation Trust is the largest mental health trust in the United Kingdom and unique in the world in regards to its wide-ranging capabilities across care and treatment, science and research, and training. The KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN)continues its partnership with the Maudsley NHS Trust in driving world-class clinical research, through joint initiatives such as the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre.
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Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation are an independent charitable foundation with an endowment of close to £1 billion, making it one of the largest in the UK. The Foundation invests in and partners with organisations to tackle significant health challenges, investing c. £136 million in work in Lambeth and Southwark in the last five years.
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Lambeth and Southwark are neighbouring inner-London boroughs located south of the River Thames. Both boroughs are young, diverse, and rapidly growing, with residents from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds. SC1 is proud to be part of this vibrant, well-connected and iconic part of South Central London, with a long history of innovation in healthcare.
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King's Health Partners is a world leading Academic Health Sciences Centre based in South East London. Its tripartite mission is to pioneer better healthcare for all by integrating world class research, care, education and training.
It brings together three leading NHS Foundation Trusts – Guys’ and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley – with a globally renowned university, King’s College London.