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About London Institute for Healthcare Engineering

The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) at King's College London brings together world-class research and development expertise across academia, the NHS and MedTech companies all co-located within a landmark building overlooking the Thames and embedded within the St Thomas’ Hospital campus. Going beyond a typical accelerator, LIHE is the ground-breaking translation engine from medical technology innovation to clinical and commercial adoption within St Thomas’ Hospital campus, part of England’s leading NHS Trust for patient recruitment to clinical studies. Thus collocated, LIHE uniquely brings together King’s research excellence, GSTT's leading clinical practice and the MedTech sector’s commercial innovation power and talent, while simultaneously providing physical space in the heart of London to start-ups, SMEs and multinationals. Translation of innovative technologies into the NHS for therapy and diagnosis is complex and requires multidisciplinary teams (clinicians, physical scientists, engineers, industry, regulatory advisors, health economists, commercial). Many novel technologies fail due to poor understanding of the challenges surrounding clinical practice, manufacturing, diagnostic/treatment pathways, clinical adoption mechanisms, regulation, and the payer landscape. LIHE will ensure MedTech spin-outs and start-ups successfully overcome these hurdles by creating a unique, supportive ecosystem of all critical stakeholders. Our mission is to transform patient care by creating a seamless pipeline of MedTech innovation, from conception to commercialisation, enabling early NHS adoption of cutting-edge technology from King's, London, and across the UK. We will be launching our inaugural acceleration programme in 2024. If you are a MedTech spin-out, start-up, or are interested in making innovation a reality for the benefit of the NHS and of patients, come and speak to us!