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Legacy City
Innovating for industry and commerce
Companies seeking new innovations and new product development will find some of the latest cutting-edge research output and developments on this webpage.
Innovations from City St George's have a proven track record in helping companies to develop these innovations into leading edge products and services which have made significant impact in their market sectors.
City St George's has for many years licensed its Intellectual Property to businesses as well as creating new businesses or joint ventures to exploit innovative research and this has often gone hand in hand with collaborative research opportunities.
Our track record
In 1993, legacy City sold its shares in a successful spin out in chemical engineering, City Technology, at the time it was the most successful spin out from any UK University and the company now owned by Honeywell continues to trade successfully.
City St George's has built on this legacy to successfully develop new innovations for industry and commerce that are seeking new products and services to bring to the market.
Areas of expertise
City St George's has a focus on innovations from business methods through to technology, some of the key areas include:
- Business processes, methods and software
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data visualisation
- Cyber security
- Photonics and Instrumentation
- Behavioural Economics
- Structural engineering
- Aeronautical engineering
- Low carbon energy generation and energy storage
- Pumps and compressors
- Human computer interaction design
- Electronics and medical instrumentation
- Optometry, eye health care and instruments
- Mathematical modelling and intelligent software development
- Journalism and the arts
- Law.
Our success stories encompass a wide range of industry sectors
Successful spin out companies from City St George's include:
- Heliex Power Ltd, waste heat to electricity generator sets
- Thomson Screening Solutions Ltd, child screening for vision, hearing, BMI, immunisation, health
- City Occupational Ltd, colour vision testing for pilots and other occupational requirements
- Behavioural Fusion Ltd, consultancy, training and research in behavioural economics for financial services and retail
- City Defend Ltd, developing a novel search engine for encrypted data in the cloud.
Examples of licensed technologies and innovations
- Cyber security tools – Crossword Cyber Security
- Computational fluid dynamics software – PDM Analysis
- Hollow construction pilings – Keltbray
- Tools and educational material – Midwifery Unit Network
- Screw compressor design – Whipple Superchargers
- Flywheel energy storage – Dynamic Boost
Current IP licencing and investment opportunities
Speed up your business's innovation or find new ways to expand through a licence to use the results of our academic work and Intellectual Property.
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Contact details
Legacy St George's
The School of Health & Medical Sciences in Tooting shares a clinical environment with St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, a major London teaching hospital, offering exceptional opportunities for knowledge exchange and translational research.
The university has an international reputation for research and innovation, with strong links to other institutions and organisations. We are constantly seeking to expand our university-industry collaborations to foster and excel our innovative research and enable impact on health.
Ways to collaborate with us
At the School, our world-leading researchers in the medical sciences are encouraged to contribute their scientific knowledge to society through collaborations industry partners.
Our areas of research and expertise are wide-ranging, from cardiology to neurosciences to vaccinology.
Academic & Research Expertise
City St George’s has four research institutes, which have brought together academics and clinicians from related areas of research:
- The Molecular and Clinical Sciences Research Institute
- The Institute for Infection and Immunity
- The Population Health Research Institute
- The Institute of Medical and Biomedical Education
Our areas of Academic and Research Expertise :
- cardiology
- cardiovascular epidemiology
- cell biology and genetics
- clinical and tropical infection
- diagnostics and AMR
- education services and approved courses
- genetic epidemiology
- genetic factors in disease
- health care evaluation
- immunology and pathophysiology
- life course epidemiology and mental health
- neurosciences
- ophthalmic epidemiology
- pathogen biology and genomics
- primary care epidemiology
- respiratory and environmental epidemiology
- therapeutics and vaccinology
- vascular & cardiac surgery
- vascular biology
Access our academic expertise to support your R&D through our Consultancy programme
Consultancy Services
Experts on hand to generate real impact for our business partners through our world class research expertise.
We work with businesses, charities and public sector organisation of all sizes.
Some of the ways that our expert researchers can help your business:
- address specific technical issues
- provide guidance on scientific procedures
- give expert advice for legal cases
- advise on the efficacy of a new piece of technology
Get in touch with the Enterprise Team.
Access Funding
Through collaboration with our world-leading researchers your business can access funding to support your R&D pipeline.
SME Innovation Vouchers - Up to £2,000 to initiate a new collaboration between your company and our researchers
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships - 12 - 36 month part-funded partnership established to support SMEs to innovate and grow by linking them with a research group and a graduate.
To discuss funding opportunities and collaborations with City St George's please get in touch with the Enterprise Team.
License Our Technologies
City St George's, University of London has an impressive portfolio of IP available for licensing.
For further information please contact the Enterprise & Innovation team
Facilities
Industry Collaboration Opportunities
We maintain a list of collaboration opportunities from our industry contacts below. If any are of interest to you please contact the enterprise team and we can provide some further information.
- LifeArc Rare disease philanthropic Fund: This fund offers grants for rare disease treatments. The assessment panel meets twice per year and prefers projects with strong scientific rationale and credible IP potential with route-to-patient in mind.
- MRC Fund administered by LifeArc to support small-scale studies (no expiration date): This fund supports small-scale studies, building upon research undertaken in MRC Units and Institutes, to provide proof of concept for translational projects.
- LifeArc Seed fund £25m (no expiration date): This fund offers 3-4 investments per year of no more than £2 million into nascent or early-stage spin out companies which align with its strategic disease priorities.
External Funding Opportunities
i4i FAST (Funding At Speed of Translation) Pilot Scheme
Deadline: None specified
Funding: Up to £50k per project
The brand new i4i FAST (Funding At the Speed of Translation) funding scheme is inviting innovators to submit applications that will answer a specific question, fund a single piece of activity or fill a specific evidence gap across all technology readiness levels. This could provide pivotal support by allowing innovations to be de-risked, further explored to justify further research and investment or to fail fast if simply not viable. Research themes can address any area of existing or emerging clinical unmet need.
This is the first round of i4i FAST Awards and will initially run as a pilot scheme. The Awards provide between £15k to £50k of funding for projects that can last between 3 to 6 months. FAST Awards are designed to have a rapid turnaround, and decisions to fund will be made within 6 to 8 weeks.
i4i FAST is a rolling call and there is no submission deadline. Applications can be submitted from 13:00 on 04 April 2022. The call can close at any time subject to budget and evaluation requirements.
Find out more information at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
Global Innovation Fund
Deadline: None specified
Funding: Discretionary
The Global Innovation Fund is a non profit innovation fund headquartered in London with an office in Washington D.C. that invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world's poorest people. Through our grants and risk capital, we help breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from for profit firms, non profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and affect meaningful change.
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) The purpose of KTPs is to unite Graduates, Academic Knowledge Bases (KBs) and businesses to inspire an innovative collaboration. Not only is this a great way to create something inventive for all parties, but also an opportunity to garner a plethora of business and interpersonal skills and enable knowledge transfer. For further information, please visit our Knowledge Transfer Partnership page.