Research facilities
We have established a number of dedicated clinical research facilities at our hospitals.
Researchers at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Imperial College London can apply to run studies at these facilities. Some facilities also welcome interest from external researchers and commercial companies. External researchers and companies must have identified a principal investigator from the Trust or from Imperial College London, before a study can begin at one of our facilities.
Imperial Memory Unit
People with Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis, MCI due to Alzheimer’s disease or people without memory problems can register their interest. Each trial has different criteria for people to join, these criteria might include age, diagnosis, medications you take and health status.
Clinical imaging facility
The Clinical Imaging Facility (CIF) provides support for interdisciplinary research activities across Imperial College London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, integrating the physical, biological and medical sciences.
Children's Clinical Research Facility
The Children's Clinical Research Facility’s research activities focuses on children with problems such as food allergy, asthma, sickle cell anemia, hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), acute infections and sleep disordered breathing.
Imanova centre for imaging sciences
The Imanova Centre for Imaging Sciences is a world-leading research facility based at Hammersmith Hospital. The Centre undertakes imaging science research and biomarker development, whilst considering the valuable application of this in early drug development.
Imperial Clinical Respiratory Research Unit
The Imperial Clinical Respiratory Research Unit (ICRRU) at St Mary’s Hospital works closely with clinicians and Imperial College London to develop new methods of sampling the airways, identification of biomarkers, and testing of new therapies and vaccines for respiratory diseases.
Imperial Clinical Trials Unit
The Imperial Clinical Trials Unit (ICTU) leads primarily on the design, conduct and analysis of national and international multi-centre trials.
Imperial tissue bank
ICTU is one of 50 UK Clinical Research Collaboration registered Clinical Trials Units. It is recognised for its experience and expertise in the development and delivery of clinical trials and associated high quality clinical research projects across a range of therapeutic areas.
NIHR Imperial Clinical Research Facility
The unit provides dedicated space and expertise for early-stage clinical trials and other experimental medicine research projects.
Parkinson’s Disease Research Unit
Parkinson's disease affects 1% of the population over the age of 65, but can also develop in people at a much younger age. The key symptoms are tremor, stiffness and slowness of movement.
Robert Hesketh Hepatology Clinical Research Unit
The Robert Hesketh Hepatology Clinical Research Unit aims to provide care and develop new treatments to tackle liver disease through clinical trials and research.
Women's Health Research Centre
The Women’s Health Research Centre (WHRC) is dedicated to improving the health outcomes of women and their babies.