Our Global Challenge Institutes were created to address some of the most important issues facing the world today. These issues are too big to be tackled by individual academics or teams, so the Institutes serve to harness and drive multi-disciplinary approaches, bringing together experts with a wide range of specialisms. The Institutes enable and support cross-faculty collaboration across College, while engaging externally with policymakers, businesses, end-users, and international partners to bring rapid, innovative progress to these critical issues. The impacts of the Global Challenge Institutes can be seen through their outputs, including their education and training programmes, in-depth policy papers and reports, seminars, workshops, and research grants. Together, these enhance and promote Imperial’s world-leading research strengths in these areas.​
The Imperial Centres of Excellence aim to galvanise a critical mass of researchers, transcending Faculty boundaries to support a multidisciplinary theme. The Imperial Networks of Excellence aim to establish and grow connections around an important multidisciplinary area that is being explored at an earlier stage than the centres. Find out more about how the College recognises multi-faculty networks and centres.
Global Challenge institutes
Participation in national institutes
Imperial Networks of Excellence
- Aerosols and Health
- Agri Futures Lab
- Air Quality
- Antimicrobial Research Collaborative
- Artificial Cell Science (fabriCELL)
- Artificial Intelligence
- Behaviour Change in Energy and Environment Policy Research
- Cancer Technology
- Diabetes
- Earth Observation
- Electrochemistry
- Electromagnetic and Biochemical Sensors
- Financial Technology 'FinTech'
- Frontiers of Ultrafast Measurement
- Fungal Science
- Glycobiology
- Human Behaviour and Experience in STEM
- Innovative Imaging Across Scales
- Malaria
- Marine and coastal environments
- Membrane Receptor
- Mental Health
- Microbiome
- Ocean Plastic Solutions
- Organ-on-Chip
- Physics of Life
- Rehabilitation Technologies
- Robotics Forum
- Science and Engineering Research for Cultural Heritage
- Space Lab
- Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
- Sustainability through Life Cycle Approaches
- Vaccine Research
- Vascular Science
- Women's Health Network
- Wound Healing and Regeneration
Imperial Centres of Excellence
- Abdul Latif Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics
- Active Resilience and Security (CARS)
- Advanced Therapeutics
- Bacterial Resistance Biology
- Cardiac Engineering
- Cellular Mechanosensing and Functional Microscopy
- Chemical Biology
- Clinical Application of Particles
- Complexity Science
- Drug Discovery Science
- Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet
- High-Throughput Digital Electronics for embedded Machine Learning
- Infrastructure Robotics Ecosystems
- Injury Studies
- Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
- Leonardo Centre on Business for Society
- Mathematics of Precision Healthcare
- Musculoskeletal Medical Engineering
- Neurotechnology
- Processable Electronics
- Quantitative Finance
- Quantum Engineering, Science and Technology
- Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions
- Sectoral Economic Performance (CSEP)
- Structural Biology
- Synthetic Biology
- Translational Nutrition and Food Research
- UK Dementia Research Institute
- Vasculitis