Our mission is to deliver world-class research and education focusing on the immune system, and how it functions and interacts in health and disease.
The School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences is one of six Schools in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. We are structured around four Departments: the Peter Gorer Department of Immunobiology, the Department of Infectious Diseases, the Department of Inflammation Biology and the Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies. We also host several specialist Centres that bring together scholastic activity around a research theme.
The School hosts a vibrant community consisting of around 75 principal investigators, several independent fellows, over 100 research staff, more than 150 postgraduate research students and around 25 professional services staff.
Our staff and students collaborate widely, with each other, across the Faculty and University, as well as nationally and globally with the aim to improve our understanding of the immune system, and how it functions in health and disease. The breadth of our research ranges from molecules, cells and systems, to tissues and organisms, all the way to populations, society and disease, taking into account the vast complexity of molecular and cellular pathways in all their settings.
Our research is funded by UKRI, the Wellcome Trust, NIHR, Cancer Research UK, Versus Arthritis, EU, British Heart Foundation, and many other charities, funders and industry collaborations.
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Find us
We are located across three central London campuses.
- First floor of New Hunt's House and Borough and Bermondsey Wings at Guy's Hospital, Guy's Campus.
- First floor of the James Black Centre, the Institute of Hepatology and the Western Education Centre, Denmark Hill Campus.
- Centre for Clinical Infection & Diagnostics Research occupies a space in St Thomas' Hospital, St Thomas' Campus.