Additional Services Available
St George’s is able to provide a range of research, training and education services.
Biomics Centre
The Medical BIOMICS centre is the world’s first purpose built facility combining genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics on a clinical site. This facility provides the opportunity to carry out integrated analysis of the molecular basis of complex disease processes in a custom built facility. The Centre can play a major role in clinical and biomedical research. The facilities available can assist in the development of novel diagnostics, in the identification of new therapeutic targets, and in increasing our understanding of the pathophysiology of disease.
Biomics website
Contact details:
Dr Gary Coulton
+44 (0)208 725 5804
e-mail: gcoulto@sgul.ac.uk
Analytical Unit
The Analytical Unit is a research and service laboratory within Professor John Camm’s Division of Cardiac & Vascular Sciences. The laboratory is accredited by the Department of Health as a Good Laboratory Practice compliant facility. They provide specialist analytical services for basic research studies, drug development and the diagnosis and treatment of disease. A variety of chromatographic and immunoassay techniques are utilized to measure drug and endogenous compounds.
The Unit can provide specialist analytical services for:
- Grant-funded research studies
- Higher Degree projects
- Pre-clinical studies
- Phase I clinical trials units
- Multicentre clinical trials
- Manufacturers of diagnostic devices
- Hospital laboratories world-wide
- Pathologists, Coroners & Solicitors
The Unit has a close relationship with the on-site Phase I Clinical Trials Unit - Richmond Pharmacology
Contact details:
Prof David Holt
Tel: +44 (0)20 8767 9686
e-mail: dholt@sgul.ac.uk
Vaccine Institute
The St George's Vaccine Institute is an independent, academic institution. It opened in 1996 as a combined clinical, scientific and educational facility. It has a focus on diseases of poverty that afflict populations in under-developed and resource-poor areas. The institute has gained over £5 million in grants to conduct a series of human clinical trials of vaccines targeted to the most underprivileged members of the world community.
Contact details:
Prof David JM Lewis
Tel: +44 20 8725 5826
e-mail: d.lewis@sgul.ac.uk
