A centre of world-leading research
The Alex Mowat Paediatric Research Laboratories are found alongside the Variety Children’s Hospital at King’s. Researchers focus on children’s liver disease and acute liver failures, but work is also carried out there on respiratory medicine, gastro-related disorders, sickle cell disease and neuroscience. The £1.2m laboratories, which opened in September 2016, have been funded entirely through charitable donations.
“The labs help us develop new therapies and treatments, which benefit children locally, nationally and internationally. We are working on a number of exciting new research projects in the laboratories, which have been made possible by extremely generous donations from key supporters.”
Professor Anil Dhawan, Director of the MowatLabs
The labs are named in honour of the late Professor Alex Mowat, who worked at King’s College Hospital for 25 years and pioneered new techniques and treatments, including the development of liver transplantation in children.