Planning permission has been granted to King’s College Hospital by the local authority and a new ‘Clinical Research/Treatment Facility’ is being built. It will become home to the Haematology Unit in the near future and also bring together other vital departments including Diabetes Research, Hepatocyte Transplantation, Cardiology and Neurosciences. The new facility will allow professors and their teams to work cohesively under one roof. LIBRA will help to equip the haematology unit through various fundraising activities.
The centre is being built by KCH to provide space for clinicians and academics and the aim is to improve patient care. Major interests on the campus include organ and bone marrow transplantation, stem cell and gene cell therapy. The new facility will include a cell therapy department in which cells obtained from patients can be prepared and modified in appropriately sterile conditions, for return to patients as biological therapies.
Work is currently in progress and the new build is really taking shape. The photograph on the left was taken at the start of the build and the image on the right is more recent.