MowatLabs

King’s College Hospital is home to one of the UK’s leading centres for child health: the Variety Children’s Hospital. With a global reputation for delivering outstanding care, we are a leading centre for children’s liver disease; neurology and neurosurgery; respiratory disease, including the management of cystic fibrosis; and oncology and haematology, including caring for children being treated for cancer. In 2009 King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, became part of King’s Health Partners, one of only six Academic Health Sciences Centres in England. As part of the King’s Health Partners, King’s is supported to bring about faster and more effective improvements in health, ultimately impacting on the health and well-being of children. Our researchers and clinicians work together to combine the best of basic and translational research, to improve patient care, develop better treatments and increase our understanding of disease. To enable us to increase our output of high quality research and a greater capacity to recruit the best paediatric clinicians and researchers, we raised £1.2 million to build the first dedicated laboratories for paediatric research at King’s College Hospital. Opening in September 2016, the Alex Mowat Paediatric Research Laboratories, to be known as the MowatLabs, will bring together world leading experts in the field of child health, providing the necessary platform to coordinate and advance research into childhood diseases. The aim of the new facility is to maximise the rich source of condition-led information and patient material coming from the hospital and in turn develop new diagnostic tests and treatments to help children at King’s, and across the world. To invest in the future of research and the next generation of medical leaders, we also plan to raise an additional £1 million to create a Paediatric Research Fund to ensuring the continued growth and future development of work undertaken in MowatLabs.