MRes Translational Medicine Academic year 2012/2013 Division of ...

MRes in Clinical Research (Pathway in Translational Medicine) - Academic Year 2012-2013Campus InformationLocation and other important sitesCampus maps - all Imperial College campus locations and relevant information can be found on theCollege website - http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfoHammersmith CampusReaching Hammersmith CampusBy bus: Buses No. 7, 70, 72, 272, 283 all stop in front of the hospitalBy Tube: Take the Central Line to White City, East Acton or the Hammersmith and City line to Woodlane. The Campus is a 15 minute walk from any of these stations.Wellcome Trust - McMichael Clinical Research Facility (WTCRF)Set up in 2000, the Sir John McMichael Centre comprises two wards embedded in the HammersmithHospital. The centre shares its site and many facilities with the Department of Oncology (cancertreatment) at Hammersmith Hospital. The Centre specialises in early proof-of-concept clinicalstudies across a range of disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, oncology, rheumatology andmetabolic, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine. Studies are usually investigator-led, making themost of the scientific expertise on site and the imaging and technology platforms that supportclinical research.A new and larger Clinical Research Facility (which is part of the Wellcome Trust Clinical ResearchNetwork) has been completed within the Hammersmith Campus site and opened in May 2012. Aswell as expanding the capacity for clinical research, the new Centre will capitalise on existingacademic-industry collaborations and provide extensive opportunities for undertaking more clinicaltrials, in both healthy volunteers and patients.South Kensington CampusImperial College LondonExhibition Road,London SW7 2AZTel +44 (0)20 7589 5111St Mary’s CampusSt. Mary's Hospital IC CampusNorfolk PlaceLondon, W2 1PGTel (switchboard) +44 20 7589 5111Reaching St Mary’s by Tube or Rail: take the Hammersmith & City, District or Circle Lines toPaddington Station. The St. Mary's Campus is a five minute walk.13