The Centre for Translational Medicine brings together the organisations of King’s Health Partners and generous funding from the Guy's and St Thomas' Charity to work in partnership to improve the health of people locally, nationally, and globally.

This is through accelerating research and innovation that improves the detection, prevention, and treatment of disease. 

The Centre for Translational Medicine aims to: 

  • address the major health burdens for local, national and global communities – and to challenge existing health inequalities;  
  • combine our outstanding clinical and scientific expertise to deliver excellent outcomes for patients;   
  • develop the next generation of clinical-academic leaders, skilled in delivering impactful translational biomedical research.   

Closed funding calls

Previous funding calls are listed below. Open funding calls will be listed here when available.

This call provided funding for the essential, often ‘hard to fund’ infrastructure to deliver high quality translational research.

Ten areas of activity have received awards, underpinning areas of clinical and academic excellence with emerging strengths and cross-cutting themes of data and diagnostics, to address the needs of patients and communities, and reduce health inequalities. 

The Clinical Research Excellence Fellowships scheme offers up to 24 months (full-time) protected research time for health professionals at the postdoctoral stage of clinical academic training. The scheme is open to any postdoctoral health professional working, or planning to work, in the area of translational medical research.

The first cohort of successful fellows was announced in March 2024. KHP has featured fellows Dr Alice Beardmore-Gray, Dr Ryan McNally, and Dr Thomas Day in KHPeople profiles. And they appear in the video to the right that introduces the Centre for Translational Medicine.

This call will open again in Winter 2024.

This scheme offers one year pump-prime funding to allow protected research time and training for health professionals working in translational medicine. Development of external funding applications to support a doctorate is expected during the year, and securing further research funding represents a key success metric of the fellowships.

Applications for this call have now closed and we announced the first successful cohort in July 2024.

This call will open again in Spring 2025.

This funding call aims to stimulate, accelerate and enhance translational medicine research across King’s Health Partners. Specifically, the funding will support the creation of pilot data, enabling substantive awards to be secured from external sources.

Applications for the call have now closed and we announced the successful projects in May 2024.

This call will open again in Spring 2025.

Patient and public involvement

We have dedicated Patient and public involvement and engagement support. If you would like support in this area or if you are a member of the public or an expert by experience in the health field and would like to be part of our PPIE team please get in touch with Sarah: translationalresearch@kcl.ac.uk.