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King’s College London is one of the top 30 universities in the world (2011/2012 QS international world rankings), the Sunday Times 'University of the Year 2010/11' and the fourth oldest in England -- founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington (then Prime Minister) in 1829.

IP Group signed its partnership with King’s in May 2003. A research-led university based in the heart of London, it has nearly 23,500 students (of whom nearly 9,000 are graduate students) from 150 countries and approximately 6,000 employees.

The results of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed King’s position as one of the top two UK universities for the impact of its health sciences research. Using the ‘research power’ analysis, some 70 per cent of King’s health science submissions are in the country’s top six. These include strong outcomes for the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases and Pharmaceutical Sciences Division.

The RAE results provide strong evidence of research excellence across the health sciences at King’s, with other areas of research that are particularly strong including nutritional sciences; women’s health; dermatology; mechanisms of allergic disease/asthma; palliative care and transplantation.

The staff and alumni of King's and its constituent institutions have made major contributions to 19th-century science, medicine and public life in general with ten people who have worked or studied at King's and its constituent institutions having been awarded the Nobel Prize.

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