Research

A team science approach to solving local and global grand challenges.

Our research clusters

We are focussing on six interdisciplinary ‘Grand Challenge Research Clusters’ that will each address a major societal challenge in the health and life sciences:

  • Brain and behaviour
  • Cancer
  • Cardiovascular disease
  • Engineering biology
  • Infectious diseases
  • People and planet

Our research themes

Brain and behavioural sciences

Clinical sciences

Genetic epidemiology and informatics

Immunology, virology and microbiology

Intervention research and methodologies

Molecular, cellular and structural biology

Plant and animal systems

Population health and life course epidemiology

Team science in action: the COVID-19 pandemic

Key partners