The Faculty celebrated its silver jubilee in 2022.

In 1997, the undergraduate west London medical schools – St Mary’s, Charing Cross and Westminster – and the postgraduate institutes at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and National Heart and Lung Institute came together to form a single school of medicine within Imperial.

During our silver jubilee year we aimed to

  • showcase our achievements and celebrate the people in our Faculty who have contributed to our establishment and development over the last 25 years

  • explore our history and honour the distinctive legacies of our constituent former medical schools from which we formed in 1997

  • look to our future and support our students to write the next chapter for Medicine at Imperial



What were we celebrating?

A research team meet in a break-out space in the atrium of Imperial Centre for Translational and Experimental Medicine at Hammersmith Campus

Our culture and community

The Faculty is, first and foremost, an amazing and diverse science community. Our progress over the last 25 years has built on our combined cultural inheritance from the great medical school institutions and  postgraduate research institutes - and has been driven by the creativity and dedication of our staff, students and partners.

During this silver jubilee year we reflected on what has been achieved - and celebrate the many great contributions made across our Faculty since 1997 (the unseen service and unsung heroes alongside our high profile successes).

Thank you to everyone who has been part of our Faculty story.

Graduands in gowns at Medicine graduation

Our teachers and students

In 1997, the great task and first achievement of our new combined faculty was the bringing together of a new undergraduate curriculum: drawing together the strengths of the constituent schools and science interactions with Imperial departments to deliver a new course for the Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM).

Since then, academics and educationalists from across FoM have driven new undergrad and postgrad educational opportunities which reflect and draw on technological, scientific and medical advances across the Faculty and beyond. Similarly our student community has developed and grown, and its members have shown outstanding talent and creativity in their studies and more broadly in student life.

Professor Robin Shattock discussing research with his team

Our scientists and our impact!

The 2021 REF results bear witness to the quality of our academic Faculty and the real-world impact our work has delivered for patients and populations over recent years. Our response to the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into high relief the value of what this academic community has achieved and the strengths of our basic, convergent and translational science.

In our anniversary year we took time to explore and share our history and impact through a series of features that showcased some of the great contributions and impact this community has made on academic medicine, patient care and worldwide health over the last 25 years.

Faculty of Medicine 25th Anniversary awards

The MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis Team receive their FoM 25th Anniversary Staff Award for Outstanding Achievement through Collaborative Research

Honouring our Faculty community

The FoM 25th Anniversary Staff Awards honoured the many important and diverse contributions made by current and former staff over the last quarter century.

Staff and teams were nominated by their colleagues, with community panels picking the overall winners across a wide range of categories.

The nominees were invited to a special thank you reception, hosted by the Dean, in January 2023. During the event the commemorative award winners were announced.   

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