Investors and Founder Institutions

The London Development Agency

London Genetics was established with £2 million funding from the London Development Agency, one of the nine regional development agencies set
up by Government to transform England's regions through sustainable economic development. It works with the Mayor to develop strategy for London's sustainable economic development. There is a focus on four interconnecting priorities that, together, will help ensure London remains
a global success story. The four themes are: Places and Infrastructure,
Supporting People, Encouraging Business and Promoting London.  Under the Encouraging Business scheme, it invests in initiatives that help maintain London as a key place to do business, and encourage enterprise start-up, business growth and competitiveness.

London Genetics Ltd has seven founding shareholders:

• Imperial College London
• The Institute of Cancer Research
• King's College London
• The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Queen Mary, University of London
• St. George's University of London
• University College London.

Several of these institutions are among the world's top five universities, according to the The Times Higher Education 2009 survey. UCL is fourth, Imperial College fifth, while King's College is 23rd.

Imperial College London

The Imperial College of London Faculty of Medicine comprises the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, the National Heart & Lung Institute, the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust as well as several other laboratory, clinical and population-focused departments.  Its strategic research themes include genetics and genomics, cardiovascular science, neuroscience, inflammation and immunity and cancer.

King's College London

King's College London is one of the UK's oldest university institutions. Its Schools include Biomedical and Health Sciences, the Institute of Psychiatry, and Medicine (which incorporates the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, focused on translational medicine). Research interests include cardiology (cardiac and vascular biomedicine), genetics and molecular medicine, and psychiatric disorders such as depression.

Institute of Cancer Research

The Institute of Cancer Research, one of the world's leading cancer research organisations, is a college of the University of London and works in partnership with The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. Areas of research include cancer genetics, cancer therapeutics, gene function and regulation and clinical trials.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine is Britain's national school of public health and is part of the University of London. The School is the largest institution of its kind in Europe with a remarkable depth and breadth of expertise encompassing many disciplines, and is one of the highest-rated research institutions in the UK. Areas of research include ageing, cardiovascular disease, clinical trials, genomics and pharmacovigilance.

St George's University of London

St George's University of London is active in medicine, biomedical sciences and health and social-care sciences. Other areas of expertise include genetics, health and social-care sciences and mental health. Areas of research excellence include diseases of the heart and circulation, as well as infection and immunity. Research is also strong in basic medical sciences, particularly cell biology and molecular genetics.

University College London

University College London is one of London's leading multidisciplinary universities. The Faculties of Biomedical Sciences and of Life Sciences
are encompassed by the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences,

which also incorporates UCL Medical School. Research Centres include the Institute of Child Health, the Wolfson Institute of Biomedical Research, the Genetics Institute and the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology. Within the School of Life and Medical Sciences, research themes include aging and well-being, cardiovascular medicine, cancer, neurosciences, structural and molecular biology, and genetics and epigenetics. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise UCL was rated the best research university in London, and third in the UK overall, for the number of its submissions which were considered of 'world-leading quality'. 

Queen Mary University of London

Queen Mary, University of London is one of London and the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions. Amongst the largest of the colleges of the University of London, Queen Mary's 3,000 staff deliver world class degree programmes and research across a wide range of subjects in Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws, in Medicine and Dentistry and in Science and Engineering.

Departments in Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry include SMD Education, Institute of Cancer, the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, the Institute of Dentistry, the Institute of Health Sciences Education, the William Harvey Research Institute, the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and the Centre of the Cell. Areas of research include the translation of basic research into man, cardiovascular disease, endocrinology and metabolism, as well as genomics.