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Silhouette – Leah, Molecular Bioengineering (UK) Photograph – Students Reiss and Kevin working in the lab as part of the College's Make a Difference competition

WORK TOGETHER

TO ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE

Whether working on a cure for cancer or tackling the climate crisis, teamwork is at the heart of everything we do.

We believe that our reputation for making scientific and technological breakthroughs is thanks to the specific way we like to collaborate. For us, collaboration isn’t just about working as a unit: it also means nurturing curiosity, listening to new ideas and supporting every team member. We value great ideas wherever they come from, which is why we empower our students to take an active role in our research from day one. It’s this unique approach to our teamwork that pushes us to do some of the most exciting work out there.

PREVENTING BLINDNESS

A team in our Department of Surgery and Cancer has produced a groundbreaking new study that may lead to the treatment of blindness in some patients. The new technology has successfully identified signs of geographic atrophy – a major cause of sight loss – for the first time.

VENTURING TO VENUS

Our Department of Earth Science and Engineering is studying the surface and atmosphere of Venus. With a mission launch as early as 2031, the research team hopes to discover more about the structure and geology of our neighbouring planet and understand whether it has ever been able to sustain life.

TREATING LONG COVID

Members of our Institute of Global Health Innovation are working on a £3.4 million research project that aims to identify the best way to treat and support the one million people in the UK living with long COVID.

LAB-GROWN MEAT

A team of our undergraduate students has worked together to develop an award-winning technology that will reduce the cost of lab-grown meat, which is now being developed alongside Imperial’s Enterprise Lab.

Find out more about our research projects:

imperial.ac.uk/news

MAKE YOUR MARK

We’ll give you the freedom and flexibility to pursue your many passions and focus on the things that really motivate you.

We choose our students for being the best and the brightest, so it doesn’t make sense to confine you to the lecture hall. We know that our undergraduates have the ability to produce valuable work, which is why we want you to be actively involved in our research.

And this extends well beyond your course with UROP and IROP – our Undergraduate and International Research Opportunities Programmes – where you can get first-hand experience of life in a research lab, under expert supervision.

imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/hands-on-research

DEVELOP NEW SKILLS

With UROP and IROP, you’ll gain hands-on experience of working on a real research project. You might even get your name on a research paper!

SHAPE YOUR EXPERIENCE

You can contact an academic from across the College whose research project you find interesting or propose your own innovative UROP idea.

“UROP is awesome!

You email an academic whose work you find interesting and ask if you can work with them. Sometimes they'll say no, but a lot of the times they'll say yes! That's how I ended up working in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering looking at an app for the self-management of type 1 diabetes and trying to improve it. My supervisor and I came up with a new device that can be used in app design. It was accepted as a manuscript at two international conferences and I actually presented at one of them.”

Leah, Molecular Bioengineering (UK)

GLOBAL OPPORTUNITIES

Ready for a new challenge? You can get some international research experience under your belt at one of our overseas partner institutions through IROP.