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Advancing Global Cancer Research at the Barts Cancer Institute: Driving innovation from lab to clinic in North East London
Cancer remains one of the world’s most complex health challenges, but in East London, collaboration is accelerating progress. The Barts Cancer Institute, based at Queen Mary University of London, is home to world-leading research in cancer biology and treatment. Within it, the Centre for Experimental Cancer Medicine – jointly embedded in Queen Mary and Barts Health NHS Trust – is...
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Barts Health and ABHI Partner to Accelerate HealthTech Innovation – A Boost for Barts Life Sciences
Barts Health NHS Trust has signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) to drive the adoption of cutting-edge health technologies that improve care, reduce health inequalities, and empower clinical teams. This collaboration aims to build a stronger health innovation cluster by bringing industry, academia, and frontline clinicians together to co-develop and scale...
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Leveraging technology to diversify clinical trial participation
Clinical trials often lack diversity with ethnic minorities being underrepresented. This imbalance can lead to treatments that are less effective for certain populations, reinforcing existing health inequalities. Caring for a population of around 2.5 million people representing 97 nations, Barts Health NHS Trust is well positioned to change this. Barts Health is already routinely capturing the diversity of research participants...
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Interested in a career in life sciences but not sure where to start? Barts Life Sciences can help.
Life sciences work doesn’t just happen in the lab. Barts Life Sciences has published a career pathways map, detailing the different ways to enter into a career in life sciences and the variety of careers available. The map can be downloaded here: Life Science Career Pathways Watch this space for details of new Barts Life Sciences’ skills and training initiatives...
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One in 17 of us will develop a rare disease. Would you want to know if you’re one of them?
Hiba Junaid, Data Scientist at Barts Life Sciences and Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Consultant Haematologist at Barts Health, spoke at the Barts Health flagship event celebrating International Clinical Trials Day and its contribution to detecting rare diseases through the use of AI. Rare diseases affect over 3.5 million people in the UK alone, yet it can take nearly 5 years on average...
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