Our Global Challenge Institutes harness the talents of a wide variety of researchers to address some of the world’s most important issues. Imperial is a member of several UKRI national institutes which bring together expertise around a defined research area or address a specific challenge.
The Imperial Centres of Excellence aim to galvanise a critical mass of researchers, transcending Faculty boundaries to support a multidisciplinary theme. The Imperial Networks of Excellence aim to establish and grow connections around an important multidisciplinary area that is being explored at an earlier stage than the centres. Find out more about how the College recognises multi-faculty networks and centres.
Global Challenge institutes
Participation in national institutes
Imperial Networks of Excellence
- Aerosols and Health
- Agri Futures Lab
- Air Quality
- Antimicrobial Research Collaborative
- Artificial Cell Science (fabriCELL)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Behaviour change in Energy and Environment Policy Research
- Cancer Technology
- Diabetes
- Earth Observation
- Electrochemistry
- Electromagnetic and Biochemical Sensors
- Financial Technology 'FinTech'
- Frontiers of Ultrafast Measurement
- Fungal Science
- Glycobiology
- Human Behaviour and Experience in STEM
- Innovative Imaging Across Scales
- Malaria
- Marine and coastal environments
- Membrane Receptor
- Mental Health
- Microbiome
- Ocean Plastic Solutions
- Organ-on-Chip
- Physics of Life
- Rehabilitation Technologies
- Robotics Forum
- Science and Engineering Research for Cultural Heritage
- Space Lab
- Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
- Sustainability through Life Cycle Approaches
- Vaccine Research
- Vascular Science
- Wound Healing and Regeneration
Imperial Centres of Excellence
- Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics
- Advanced Therapeutics
- Cardiac Engineering
- Chemical Biology
- Clinical Application of Particles
- Complexity Science
- CRUK Convergence Science Centre
- Drug Discovery Science
- Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet
- High-Throughput Digital Electronics for embedded Machine Learning
- Infrastructure Robotics Ecosystems
- Injury Studies
- Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
- Leonardo Centre on Business for Society
- London Centre for Nanotechnology
- Mathematics of Precision Healthcare
- Musculoskeletal Medical Engineering
- Neurotechnology
- Performance Science
- Processable Electronics
- Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology
- Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions
- Structural Biology
- Synthetic Biology
- The Thomas Young Centre (the London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials)
- Translational Nutrition and Food Research
- UK Dementia Research Institute
- Vasculitis