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Imperial Global USA
Imperial Global USA will strengthen US research ties, alumni, and student recruitment.
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Imperial Global USA enhances our research partnerships with US academic and industrial partners and supports our growing US alumni network and student recruitment opportunities.
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The US is one of our most important and longstanding collaborators and we look forward to exploring ambitious projects and making exciting new discoveries together. Professor Hugh Brady President, Imperial College London
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Imperial Global USA appoints inaugural Academic Co-Directors
Professor Karen Polizzi and Mr James Kinross have been appointed as Academic Co-Directors of Imperial Global USA. Karen and James will steer the next phase of the hub, providing scientific and technological expertise and insight, and growing Imperial Global USA’s networks.
Meet the Academic Co-Directors
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Quantum and deep tech innovation at San Francisco Tech Week
Professor Terry Rudolph, Co-Founder and Chief Architect of PsiQuantum, joined Imperial’s Provost Professor Peter Haynes for an event on the potential applications of quantum computing and how deep tech research can create high-value startups and spinouts.
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We are Imperial – a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB), where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.
As a global top ten university (2nd in the world – QS World University Rankings 2025), we use science to try to understand more of the universe and improve the lives of more people in it.
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Wendy Tan White: Leading the Imperial Global USA Advisory Council
Wendy Tan White MBE is building bridges between London and Silicon Valley, science and commercialisation, ambition and impact. As CEO of Intrinsic, Alphabet Inc., she’s leading the future of robotics, and now as Chair of Imperial Global USA's Advisory Council, she’s helping to power a new kind of transatlantic innovation.
Meet Wendy and the Advisory Council membersImperial Global USA will provide
- Collaboration. We will create new opportunities for Imperial to connect with US research partners, in search of solutions to global challenges.
- Science and technology networks. We will connect our partners and our alumni with emerging tech and discovery science.
- Enterprising ventures. We will support startups to bring innovative technology from the lab to the market.
- Events that bring the best Imperial startups to the US. We will connect our US partners with Imperial’s leading academics and student founders.
- A bridge to the WestTech Corridor. We will help plug investors and partners into London’s most exciting innovation ecosystem.
- Careers and recruitment. We will share opportunities for study at Imperial and connect employers with our US-based alumni.
Imperial Global USA Academic Co-Directors
Imperial Global USA Academic Theme Leads
Human and Artificial Intelligence
Professor Aldo Faisal
Co-Director of the School of Convergence Science in Human and Artificial Intelligence
Advanced Materials and Cleantech
Professor Mary Ryan
Vice Provost for Research & Enterprise and the Armourers and Brasiers’ Chair for Materials Science
Health Technologies
Professor Anthony Bull
Co-Director of the School of Convergence Science in Health and Technology
Space and Satellite Technologies
Professor Jonathan Eastwood
Co-Director of the School of Convergence Science in Space, Security and Telecoms
Deep Tech Entrepreneurship
Professor Ramana Nanda
Associate Dean of Enterprise, Director of the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship
Biotech
Professor Paul Kellam
Professor of Virus Genomics in the Department of Infectious Diseases
Human Therapeutics
Professor Tamir Rashid
Clinical Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Hepatology in the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
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What others are saying:
"Science and technology is at its best when it is open and international, and it is excellent to see one of the UK’s leading universities taking their brilliant research across the globe, enabling exchanges in talent, ideas and infrastructure."
"This is also a great example of how pairing the UK’s genuinely world-class university research sector with innovators, investors and entrepreneurs abroad will help turn cutting-edge research into innovative new businesses, and drive economic growth for the UK, the US and the world."
UK Government’s Science Minister, Lord Vallance
"By bringing the world leading innovation and research from Imperial closer to the tech and venture ecosystem in San Francisco, they will strengthen ties between academics, founders and funders. "
"Entrepreneur First also opened a permanent presence in San Francisco earlier this year and Imperial will be a welcome addition to the incredible Bay area energy."
Matt Clifford, Co-founder Entrepreneur First and ARIA Chair
"If UK universities are going to help build globally significant spinouts, it will mean understanding what it means to build world leading businesses. That’s why this boots on the ground support matters to help connect Britain’s best innovators with US networks."
Dom Hallas, Executive Director Start up Coalition