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Our Vision
for the Future
of Healthcare

We will transform the future of healthcare, not only for the people of London and the UK, but globally.

Our ultimate ambition is to build a new life sciences campus that will provide a space for our researchers, scientists and clinicians to work directly alongside businesses and entrepreneurs, creating the healthcare solutions of tomorrow. This will allow us to share ground-breaking ideas, develop new ways of working, improve health outcomes and reduce the costs faced by health systems.

Our vision, made possible through this transformative partnership, is to create an ecosystem that will:

  • Accelerate, with confidence and safety, research and development through the innovation chain from the bench to the patient.
  • Reduce health inequalities and transform patient care in East London and the wider UK.
  • Create a sustainable NHS which will be recognised as world-leading in prevention, prediction and precision health care.

Our vision, made possible through this transformative partnership, is to create an ecosystem that will:

  • Accelerate, with confidence and safety, research and development through the innovation chain from the bench to the patient.
  • Reduce health inequalities and transform patient care in East London and the wider UK.
  • Create a sustainable NHS which will be recognised as world-leading in prevention, prediction and precision health care.
Our impressive track record
We have a rich history of turning discovery science into the delivery of transformative care. Through our partnership we are able to bring together some of the best minds in the country, across multiple disciplines, to enable knowledge sharing and facilitate exciting collaborations that drive scientific advancements forward.
Unparalleled data
We have one of the largest patient populations of any healthcare organisation in the country and access to rich and extensive data sets. Barts Health itself is home to three national biobanks and hosts 21 separate research repositories containing over 500,000 human tissue samples. This data, used responsibly and with consent, has the potential to be a rich resource for the discovery and delivery of new technologies like predictive AI-enabled healthcare tools.
Unrivalled diversity
Whitechapel is home to one of the most diverse populations in Europe. By working in partnership with the local community, our ambition is to discover and deliver better health outcomes for people on a global scale, and bring new treatment to patients faster.
Powerful partnerships
An exciting partnership already exists within Barts Life Sciences, in which organisations have come together to deliver innovative projects with organisations from across the country. For example, in 2017/18 we undertook 150 industry sponsored trials and we are currently collaborating with a number of organisations to deliver leading genomics programmes. However, there is great potential for more collaboration in this area to deliver innovative and transformative healthcare solutions.
The perfect location
Whitechapel represents one of the most exciting new locations for a life sciences hub; strategically placed between Europe’s financial hub and London’s thriving start-up community. We already benefit from world-class transport links, due to be improved even further with the introduction of Crossrail.