Building research facilities for the future

Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London (SMD) aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people throughout the UK and beyond through research and teaching excellence.

Over the past ten years, SMD has experienced unparalleled growth in research power and research output quality. Researchers in the key strategic areas of cancer, cardiovascular disease, inflammation and preventive medicine have been extremely successful in winning major new grant funding that has huge potential to deliver significant patient benefits through translation of research from bench to bedside and into the wider population.

With these funds the Charity is strategically supporting SMD in a new phase of growth to attract new talents by providing new research laboratories equipped to the latest standard, as well as creating additional and bespoke teaching facilities and office space.

It will ensure the current and ambitiously expanding research programmes are supported, enabling them to reach their full potential to deliver tangible benefits to patients and the community. Providing optimal space to accommodate existing and new staff into SMD will allow them to flourish scientifically and shape the future of research. This will set SMD in the optimal position for the next Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) with augmented quantity without compromising quality. The expanded portfolio of research and training activities enabled by this project will deliver in terms of translation into patient benefit, high quality publications and further successful grant applications.

Artist impression of the new facilities in the Joseph Rotblat building

LOM Architecture and Design