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Professor Rakesh Uppal appointed Chief Executive Officer of Barts Life Sciences

Barts Health NHS Trust is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Rakesh Uppal as Chief Executive Officer of Barts Life Sciences. In this role, he will lead the programme that strengthens collaboration between industry and Barts Health NHS Trust and oversees the development of the Barts Life Sciences Cluster in East London, focused on driving innovation into healthcare.   The...

The Barts Life Sciences Cluster launches in Whitechapel, East London

With planned investment of over £800m, the Cluster brings together Barts Health NHS Trust and private investors to unite clinical excellence and commercial innovation.   Science Minister Lord Vallance said: “We have ambitious goals for making the UK Europe’s leader when it comes to life sciences’ sector-led investment in R&D, access to scale-up finance, and pulling in foreign direct investment....