One Health, One Medicine research areas

From harnessing digital technology to improve health and food security, to using artificial intelligence to detect cancer, our research aims to have a positive impact on society.

Artificial intelligence

We’re using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to help benefit society through improved healthcare delivery, reduction of livestock disease and much more.

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Human health

We’re improving medical imaging technologies for cancer detection and using machine learning to provide more personalised care.

Cross-disciplinary research

Our magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.

Brain and Behaviour

We’re exploring cognition and behaviour across the lifespan in both non-clinical and clinical populations.

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Cancer

We’re investigating targeted therapies and diagnostic biomarkers for cancer.

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Cardiovascular science

We’re researching new ways to identify and treat cardiometabolic disorders.

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Chronobiology and sleep

We’re looking at ways to alleviate disrupted sleep and managing our body clock timings.

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Healthy ageing and supporting long-term conditions

We’re working on improving intervention and care in age-related disease.

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Infection and immunity

We’re improving our understanding of microbes, immunity and the spread of infectious disease.

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Innovation for health

We're helping to improve diagnosis, treatment, recovery and prevention of illnesses in people and animals.

Neglected tropical diseases

We work on a range of bacterial, viral and parasitic neglected tropical diseases including Buruli ulcer, intestinal worms and rabies, schistosomiasis and echinococcosis.

Digital health

Digital technology is fundamentally transforming the way healthcare is accessed and delivered for both people and animals. We’re at the forefront of this revolution.

Digital Health at the University of Surrey

Find out how our multidisciplinary team of researchers are developing solutions to improve our health and wellbeing.

Find out more about digital health research
vHive Launch 2016 at University of Surrey

We’re home to the Veterinary Health Innovation Engine (vHive), a research centre, start-up and incubator dedicated to the development and adoption of new digital technologies for animal health.

Find out more about vHive
Veterinary Pathology Centre | University of Surrey

We have one of the UK's largest veterinary pathology centres, offering high-containment post-mortem examination facilities for livestock, equines, exotics and companion animals.

Discover our Veterinary Pathology Centre
Creating ‘Healthy Homes’ for people with dementia

We’re part of the UK Dementia Research Institute’s Care Research & Technology Centre, helping to develop new ways to keep people independent in their homes, improve their general health and sleep, and reduce confusion and agitation.

Find out more about the Care Research & Technology Centre

Digital Health Technology Accelerator

We’re in the process of establishing a ‘one-stop shop’ for digital health innovation, known as the Surrey Digital Health Technology Accelerator. This will be a place where academics, clinicians and SMEs can come together to create innovative solutions for health problems and test their effectiveness.

At the heart of the Accelerator will be our Clinical Research Facility, Clinical Trials Unit, our world-renowned Sleep Research Centre with a six-bed ward and six individual sleep cabins, and a brand new Dementia Research Institute ‘healthy home’. This ‘healthy home’ will use a host of technologies to unobtrusively record sleep and circadian rhythms, data of which will be monitored and personalised interventions offered by healthcare professionals.