We are a national leader in medical education, investing in multi-disciplinary research teams and creating opportunities for external collaborations.
We are an ambitious community with a reputation for our expertise in both research and teaching. Medicine at Southampton leads learning and discovery across the lifecourse, from before birth to the elderly, through a range of specialisms. Over the last 50 years we have trained thousands of doctors and scientists, and led research in areas as diverse as cancer, osteoporosis, asthma and nutrition.
Our research ranges from basic cellular and molecular biology right through to the epidemiology of service provision. We have a long-established relationship with Cancer Research UK and are home to the UK's first centre for cancer immunology.
We aim to foster high quality cancer research with an emphasis on translating theory into viable clinical applications.
Over 100 researchers, clinicians and associated staff work as coordinated teams across several disciplines. This enables us to bring discoveries into clinical practice as quickly as possible, and to ensure that the scientific hypotheses underlying cancer treatments are fully tested.
Our researchers and educators aim to promote human health across the lifecourse. We characterise:
We investigate mechanisms and test interventions, studying molecules, cells, individuals and populations. We are especially interested in musculoskeletal, metabolic, and immune/inflammatory health.
The school incorporates the Medical Research Council Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre and is closely linked with the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.
Our research groups are:
Our researchers are driven by a desire to create better treatments and diagnostics for their patients, specialising in world-leading patient-focused translational research. We've conducted many clinical trials, including being a leading centre for the COVID vaccine trials.
We work with both commercial and non-commercial partners to stay at the forefront of research, and many of our researchers work in the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre. Insights gained from our work are now underpinning novel treatments, gene therapies and stem cell research.
Our work focuses on 5 main areas, each with their own specific research and educational aims:
We work across the faculties to deliver interdisciplinary projects, bringing new technologies and methods to our patient-centred work.
We undertake a wide range of research, teaching and enterprise activities:
Our research is multi-disciplinary and broad, delivering high quality, evidence-based health research to enhance prevention, early detection and management of health-related conditions.
We collaborate nationally and internationally with academics and clinicians to develop, deliver and implement research that has an impact on policy and clinical practice. Our active patient and public involvement members help ensure our research is both inclusive and relevant to patients’ priorities.
We help develop the next generation of researchers and clinicians. We have active early researcher and postgraduate groups, and our staff make major contributions to medical undergraduate teaching and postgraduate training.
Our school aims to make a positive impact on health and wellbeing by providing creative, effective solutions that benefit society. We are underpinned by knowledge exchange and enterprise generated through healthcare innovation, enterprise activity and key partnerships.
We respond to stakeholder need and the local, national and international healthcare ecosystem to drive and support meaningful change. Our work extends across opportunities within the Faculty of Medicine and connections with other University schools and faculties.
The school hosts the largest enterprise contract for the University, as an NIHR Coordinating Centre, managing national and international research funding programmes.
Research groups, centres and institutes bring together specialists to share knowledge and solve problems.
Medicine in Southampton has always been a place where I have felt it is possible to make links, get support, find collaborators and make a significant contribution... Collegiality is one quality that marks Southampton out and underpins our teaching, research and enterprise.
