Commercial Research, trials, IPR, and spin-out companies

The IP & Innovation unit at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust supports commercial and healthcare related partnerships and activities with Industry, SMEs and Charities internationally.

The unit supports: commercial research collaborations, contract research, knowledge transfer & consultancy activities, material transfers, product evaluation services, product development collaborations, technology transfer of Hospital discoveries and inventions (incl. licensing opportunities, company & joint venture formations) and encourages engagement with Industry. The unit interfaces with a wide variety of partners, including but not limited to: Pharma, Biotech, Clinical Research, IT & Data Management, Diagnostic and Medical Device sectors.

The IP & Innovation unit helps the commercial sector navigate and facilitate interaction with its clinical and research disciplines to generate ethical and mutually beneficial outcomes for healthcare. The unit engages with external partners to support service innovations, contract research services, product development services/collaborations, diagnostic and medical device evaluation services and commercial research collaborations as well as facilitating multi-centre partnerships through it’s Hospital and University partners in the Biomedical Research Centres’ and the King’s Health Partners’ joint research programmes (with access to pioneering research collaborations between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts).

The Trust has a range of licensing and spin-out opportunities where it actively seeks partners in the fields of: diagnostics, pharmacogenomics, telehealth, clinical management and disease monitoring software, media and a range medical devices. Please contact us for further enquiries and non-confidential information.

The IP & Innovation unit helps introduce the commercial sector and other collaborators to Guy’s and St. Thomas’s clinical expertise including pioneering clinicians and key opinion leaders. We understand that the exchange and improvement of knowledge, skills and processes helps optimise clinical delivery and clinical research outcomes.

Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital is one of the largest Hospitals (including a state of the art Children’s Hospital) in the UK and is a major teaching hospital and research centre. It has access to large patient cohorts and has a range of tissue banks and clinical data to draw upon for its research. The Hospital was awarded one of five National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) and is one of only five one of only five Academic Health Science Centres (called ‘King’s Health Partners’) in the UK. King’s Health Partners is a pioneering collaboration between Guy’s and St. Thomas Hospital, King’s college Hospital, South London and Maudsley Hospital and one of the world's leading research-led universities (King’s College London). Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital together with it’s local partners offers an almost all encompassing centre of clinical disciplines and research themes making it very attractive to companies interested in partnering with us.

For further information contact Dr Terry Parlett (terry.parlett@gstt.nhs.uk)