Queen Mary, University of London
Queen Mary, University of London is one of the UK's leading research-focused higher education institutions, with 2,800 staff deliver world class degree programmes and research across a wide range of subjects in Science and Engineering, Medicine and Dentistry, Humanities, Social Sciences and Laws. The Sunday Times Good University Guide commented "Queen Mary is a true all-round institution with excellence in medicine and dentistry, science and engineering, and the social science and arts."
Queen Mary has made a strategic commitment to the highest quality of research but also to the best possible educational, cultural and social experience for its students. The launch of the consortium for Computer Science, Electronic Engineering and Mathematics is set to consolidate Queen Mary's leading position in the field. Barts and The London, Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry, is an increasingly highly regarded research focused school, reflected in such developments as the award of the first Cancer Research UK Clinical Centre. The William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI), established by Nobel Laureate Sir John Vane, has built up a profile as one of the top pharmacological research centres in the world.
Queen Mary already has established several strong collaborations with Chinese HEIs together with UK companies such as Airbus and QinetiQ in the fields of aerospace, clean energy, nano-technology, biometrics and security, wireless telecommunication and biotechnology. Queen Mary's Department of Engineering, for example, has received over £2 million in collaboration awards from the Chinese Space Agency. Further collaborations with China were established in 2006, including a joint research centre between the Institute of Cancer in the School of Medicine and Dentistry and Zhengzhou University, with links to five teaching hospitals. A joint research centre for Bio-Engineering and Materials was also set up between Queen Mary and the Southern Medical University (SMU) in Guangzhou, China in October 2006. The SMU-Queen Mary Joint Research Centre for Bio-Engineering and Materials is an equal partnership research institute, which promotes academic collaboration and research exchange between the two institutions in biomedical, clinical and related sciences and engineering.
