The Blizard Institute is the largest institute of Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry and aims to deliver excellence in all aspects of research, teaching and clinical service

Research of the Blizard Institute
The Blizard comprises c500 staff and students based in eight academic Centres each with focussed programmes of research which examine the cellular mechanisms of the maintenance of health, the response to injury and repair and the pathogenesis of disease. The Institute was returned in Unit of Assessment 4 of RAE2008 and 80% of the outputs were considered world class or internationally excellent. This outcome placed the research of Blizard Institute in joint first position of Hospital Based Clinical Subjects in UK medical schools.

Award winning building design
The Institute is housed in the Blizard Building in Whitechapel. This unique research building provides state of the art laboratory and office accommodation based on an innovative open plan design, a 400 seat lecture theatre, meeting rooms and core facilities in Flow Cytometry, Imaging, Global siRNA screening and Transgenics. The large open plan laboratories and juxtaposition of research Centres from different backgrounds provides the perfect environment for the development of interdisciplinary collaborative research.

Post-graduate programmes
The Institute hosts a range of highly successful and sought after post-graduate courses lead by senior staff in individual academic centres, These programmes have been developed in response to the research, teaching and training needs of individuals pursuing careers in disciplines encompassed by the Institute.

Public Engagement in Science

The Blizard Building houses a Bioscience Education Centre, the Centre of the Cell, which aims to engage young people and schools in the principles of scientific and biomedical research and the background to many of the major scientific and ethical issues facing young people, educationally and socially.  The Centre of the Cell opened in September 2009 and 10,000 children will have visited in its first year of opening.

The Institute takes its name from Sir William Blizard, the founder of the London Hospital Medical College in 1785.