The Industry Research Partnerships Office identifies and engages with industry partners to develop wider impact for research at King’s through funding, access to unique resources, or collaboration with industry researchers. Through research collaborations, industry partners can gain access to King’s research excellence and breakthrough technologies which can provide a competitive advantage and deliver real world impact.

As well as supporting King’s researchers to find new industry partners for their projects, we can assist with initiating research partnerships and help to expand existing partnerships. We regularly host information sessions to introduce you to companies or specific industries interested in collaborating with research at King’s.

Securing industry research partnerships provides our researchers with diversified research grant income, research technologies and infrastructure beyond our campuses, and helps create impact for societal benefit.

The Industry Research Partnerships Office engages with researchers and projects at various stages of the innovation pipeline. Working closely with the Translational Research Office and the IP & Licensing Team, we are able to identify opportunities across teams to maximise industry and investment exposure for King’s research.

• Identifying the best industry partners
• Building and managing relationships with partners
• Help attracting funding and in-kind contributions from industry
• Support with processes for contracting and project setup
• Providing specialist marketing insight
• Training and networking events
• Help with framing the research industry collaboration
• Identifying innovation funding opportunities

• Connecting new and existing industry partners with King’s research ecosystem
• Consulting with new and existing partners to understand their needs and challenges
• Exposing partners to opportunities for licensing, networking, research collaboration
• Support to navigate King’s expertise landscape internally
• Connections to King’s interna teams for contract negotiations and project delivery
• Matching external collaborators to available innovation funding activities

Please email innovation@kcl.ac.uk to be connected to the best Industry Research Partnerships contact at King’s. 

Director of Industry Partnerships

Dr Vassilis Georgiadis

Vassilis leads the Industry Research Partnerships Office within Innovation@King’s.

Email: vassilis.georgiadis@kcl.ac.uk  

Faculty of Arts & Humanities, King’s School of Business, Dickson Poon School of Law, Faculty of Social Sciences & Public Policy and Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences

Dr Yiannis Tsamis 

Email: yiannis.tsamis@kcl.ac.uk

Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Dr Sandra Esteras

Email: alexandra.esteras@kcl.ac.uk

Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine and Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Dr Rachel Parker

Email: rachel.parker@kcl.ac.uk

Innovation Funding

Dr Miriam Canavese

Miriam supports all faculties and institutes at King’s with innovation funding bids, with a special focus on Innovate UK and UKRI grant applications.

Email: miriam.canavese@kcl.ac.uk