UCL and Yale unite to improve global health
A unique Collaboration Agreement at Yale University has been signed by the Presidents of UCL & Yale on 8th October 2009. The Agreement commits the two universities to undertake a series of defined integrated joint programmes of work in biomedical research (basic and clinical). The Yale hospitals joined as signatories along with UCL Partners, and the UCL Academic Health Centre (with Great Ormond Street, Moorfields, the Royal Free and UCL Hospitals Trust). They will be key partners in this joint translational research and quality improvement programme.
The Agreement is a first for both universities, and indeed a first for such institutional trans-Atlantic research collaboration and is the culmination of several months of close preparatory work. Both UCL and Yale University are centres of biomedical research and rank in the top echelon of educational institutions in the world. They hold fourth and third place respectively in the Times Higher Education–QS World University Rankings 2009.
Peter Coveney (Project Coordinator of the VPH NoE) is based at UCL and has been closely involved in this process. Fundamental to the work will be a joint informatics strategy, focusing initially on bioinformatics/computational biomedicine. For further information please click here