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To mark London Life Sciences Week (16th – 21st November 2025), we dive into White City Innovation District’s rising prominence as a life sciences hub – bringing game-changing advances to global public health.

For London Life Sciences Week, we’re proud to share that 15 companies from the White City Innovation District ecosystem are featured in MedCity’s new ‘Life Sciences Companies to Watch 2025’ report — key recognition of our vibrant district’s emergence as a leading life sciences hub.

Imperial spin-out M-Spin is pushing the boundaries of porous materials technology to build a greener future. Founding CEO Dr Robin Francis offers an illuminating insight into his role at this trailblazing start-up and why M-Spin’s mission is driven by the pursuit of better and cheaper.

In this guest blog, the Scale Space team profiles SOLVE Chemistry – an ambitious Imperial College London spin-out harnessing machine learning and real-world data to optimise key chemical manufacturing processes.

Rishi Joshi – VP of Marketing and Business Development for Imperial spin-out DNAe – takes us through his working day and explains why Next Generation Sequencing technology is set to play a defining role in delivering faster, more effective healthcare.

In just a few short years, Scale Space has grown into one of the UK’s leading hubs for innovation. Here we look at how Scale Space has evolved into a place where ideas thrive, businesses grow, and whose exceptional community of innovators and entrepreneurs continues to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

The teams at Imperial Incubator, ARC West London and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust were delighted to welcome Howard Dawber OBE — Deputy Mayor of London for Business and Growth — to celebrate the opening of Leap: Powered by Imperial Incubator at ARC’s Hammersmith Campus.

A new video celebrates the success and impact of the Agilent Measurement Suite (AMS) — the unique launchpad for start-ups and discovery science located in the heart of White City Innovation District. Since 2019, over 200 successful projects have emerged from this unique collaboration.

Dr Rupa Huq MP recently joined Imperial College London colleagues across White City for a tour of White City Deep Tech Campus. The MP for Ealing Central and Acton explored how Imperial is supporting early-stage deep tech startups and the local community groups.

Deep tech start-up Concert Bio is transforming greenhouse performance for hydroponic crop growers. Here CEO Paul Rutten shares his day in the life, the value of a supportive innovator community – and why anyone interested in the greenhouse industry should brush up on their Dutch…

RFC Power is dedicated to helping the world store renewable energy, simply and safely so it can be used whenever it’s needed. The Imperial spin-out specialises in developing novel flow battery chemistries for energy storage systems.

Imperial spin-out Puraffinity is an advanced materials company that designs and develops novel adsorbent media to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water. The company’s vision is to improve human and environmental health by effectively removing PFAS from water.