About us
The LMS is a biomedical discovery research institute of world-leading excellence, embedded within the Imperial College London Hammersmith campus and adjacent to the White City Innovation District, providing a clinical-translational, multidisciplinary and entrepreneurial research environment of outstanding excellence.
The institute was founded by the Medical Research Council over 20 years ago and now attracts the very highest calibre of scientists, postdoctoral researchers and students from around the world.
Our collective challenge is to remain at the forefront of innovation so that advances made at the bench can be progressed for maximum benefit.
About the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
Strategic location
At the Hammersmith Campus, the LMS is ideally placed to facilitate the translational development of its work. LMS scientists also exploit transdisciplinary opportunities with colleagues from Imperial College London combining biological sciences with other disciplines, including engineering, physics, mathematics, chemistry and computer science.
Research at the LMS
The diversity of our teams brings wide-ranging perspectives together to understand the concepts, principles and mechanisms that underpin human health, development and disease. Our research groups are also part of the Institute of Clinical Sciences (ICS) within the Faculty of Medicine underpinning our partnership with Imperial College London.
Progress through collaboration
We have close ties with our sister institute, the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, and national and global collaborations, which provide us with unparalleled opportunities to push back the boundaries of discovery science. In addition to academic and research partnerships, we are part of the White City Innovation District and our wide ranging collaborations and partnerships provide the opportunities to allow the exploitation of research findings into translational targets that will one day improve healthcare and outcomes.
