Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine is one of the leading scientific universities in the world (currently as 3rd in Europe and 8th in the world). Imperial’s School of Public Health (ISPH) is an organizational leader in public health research, as evidenced by the 2014 Research Assessment Exercise, where it was in the top two ranking departments nationally for public health. ISPH hosts the MRC Centre for Environment and Health. Research at the MRC Centre focusses on the study of the health effects of ubiquitous environmental hazards of major public health and scientific importance, such as air pollution, noise pollution, non-ionising radiation and other agents. The Centre’s research is grouped in five complementary themes, from research on Environmental Pollutants, Exposome and Healthy Cities, to Biostatistics and Cohort studies. The Centre’s activities also include leading programmes on Training and Policy Translation. The MRC Centre for Environment and Health undertakes the highest quality research in the fields of environment and health, to inform health policy and the understanding of key issues affecting our society. The Centre achieves this by bringing together the best researchers from all areas of public health, encouraging novel cross-disciplinary approaches, and by providing the highest quality training to new and existing researchers in these fields.  The MRC Centre incorporates state of the art omics platforms: genomics including microarray gene expression, RNA Seq, DNA sequencing; cutting-edge metabolomics (Phenome Center); metagenomics DNA, RNA and metabolites of the microbiome; epigenomics and epigenomic epidemiology; systems biology, including of airway differentiation and inflammation; and expertise in cellular biology.