The Centre for Translational Medicine’s strengths lie in expertise of our people and the partnerships that connect them. We bring together clinicians, researchers, and professional experts from across disciplines to accelerate the translation of discovery science into tangible benefits for patients and communities.
Our model is built on collaboration - integrating expertise across healthcare, academia, and community settings to address complex health challenges. This is supported by strong partnerships that enable access to diverse populations, cutting edge infrastructure, and rich data environments, ensuring our work is inclusive, impactful, and grounded in practice.
We invest in people at every career stage, fostering leadership and enabling the development of new skills required for translational research.
Centre leadership
Prof Philip Newsome
Prof Phillip Newsome is the Director of the Centre for Translational Medicine.
Prof Newsome’s research expertise encompasses cell therapies for liver disease, fatty liver disease, rare metabolic disorders, and liver transplantation, and includes both basic research and clinical trials. He has published more than 150 major research papers and is a frequent contributor to both local and national media, including advising the BBC on stories related to cell therapy.
Prof Robin Ali is the KHP Lead for Advanced Therapies.
Prof Ali has extensive experience in all aspects of cell and gene therapies from pre-clinical proof-of-concept through to GMP manufacturing and clinical trials. He also has extensive experience of commercialisation and was a founder of Nasdaq-listed gene therapy company MeiraGTx.
Prof Ali will coordinate the approach of advanced therapies across our university and NHS partners. He will enable us to coordinate our outstanding discovery science, our strong portfolio of experimental and translational research as well as our delivery of commissioned therapies.
Emily is the manager for the Centre of Translational Medicine (CTM). Emily has a background in healthcare – both clinically as a paediatric respiratory physiologist in New Zealand and then in academia, supporting various research studies.
This collective reflects a broad integrated network of expertise across major health challenges, demonstrating the scale, capability, and leadership required to deliver impactful translational research.
We have connections across a comprehensive suite of research infrastructure in south London that spans the full translational continuum from preclinical development, through early clinical trials to health services research and healthcare delivery:
We have dedicated Patient and public involvement and engagement support. If you would like support in this area or if you are a member of the public or an expert by experience in the health field and would like to be part of our PPIE team please get in touch with Sarah: translationalmedicine@kcl.ac.uk.
Training and development
The CTM partners with King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO), who provide training opportunities and support for research-active health professionals working across King’s Health Partners. KCATO exists to facilitate world-class clinical academic training across King’s College London and our NHS partners, enabling all types of health professionals to become clinical academic leaders of the future.
Alongside these live training events, the KCATO Hub hosts a wealth of on-demand training materials. These cover topics including funding applications, scientific publishing, data management, patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE), and communication. If you’re based at King’s College London, you automatically have access to the Hub via your university login. For those working at King’s Health Partners but external to the University, you can request access by filling in this form.
Learning Hub
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