Developing vital new medical devices and therapies that will cost less to develop and reach patients sooner

King’s, alongside King’s Health Partners, is creating a Medical Technology (MedTech) Hub embedded within the St Thomas’ Hospital campus in a bid to significantly reduce the time it takes to get new technologies from bench to bedside. Further, all new developments will employ the ideas of value-based healthcare and frugal innovation – thereby optimising patient care and reducing costs. This will ensure healthcare technologies become available to many more patients across the globe.

Our goal is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of all patients and ensure they receive the very best care.

Professor Reza Razavi, Vice President and Vice Principal (Research) at King’s

The MedTech Hub will initially focus on clinical challenges aligned to the research strengths and areas of patient focus across our wider partnership (King’s Health Partners). The Hub will bring clinicians, researchers, patients, academics and medical engineering companies (including small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and start-ups) together at a single site. It will cost just over £106m, but more than £46m has already been raised through successful funding bids submitted to UK Research and Innovation, Wellcome and the Wolfson Foundation.

Healthcare engineering research at King’s has received significant endorsements. In November 2019, King’s School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, which is leading the MedTech Hub endeavour on behalf of King’s, received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. Professor Reza Razavi, Vice President and Vice Principal (Research) at King’s, said: ‘Our goal is to improve the diagnosis and treatment of all patients and ensure they receive the very best care. Our critical contribution is to continuously develop state-of-the-art medical technology, based on strong, patient-focused research.’

St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas’ Hospital