University · London
Quantum biomedicine is UCL's flagship national role: it leads Q-BIOMED, the hub building quantum sensors for earlier diagnosis of cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's, with Cambridge, Oxford, Warwick, Cardiff and Heriot-Watt. John Morton, who directs the UCL Quantum Science and Technology Institute, is the hub's principal investigator, and in May 2026 it gained £902,000 from EPSRC's Accelerating Capability Fund to bring in new collaborators and map clinical needs with UCLPartners. UCL researchers co-founded the algorithms company Phasecraft in 2019 with the University of Bristol, and Morton is also a founder of silicon qubit maker Quantum Motion.
University College London, in London, appears in six UK quantum projects listed here. In this directory it leads Q-BIOMED and is a partner in 5 more. People profiled here include John Morton (Co-Director and PI) and Toby Cubitt (Co-Founder).
Sources: Q-BIOMED: home · Q-BIOMED: our team · Q-BIOMED secures £902K to expand healthcare quantum sensing (Quantum Zeitgeist, May 2026) · UCL spinout developing quantum algorithms raises £13 million (UCL News)
Q-BIOMED
A national research hub that develops quantum sensors for earlier diagnosis of disease. UCL and the University of Cambridge lead it.
Role: Lead
Funding: £24m
Themes: Sensing, Biomedical and health, Imaging
EPSRC fellowships for 11 early-career quantum technology researchers at UK universities.
Role: Partner
Themes: Skills and training, Computing, Sensing
QCi3
The national research hub for quantum computing, led by the University of Oxford. It works on scalable and networked quantum computers.
Role: Partner
Funding: £21.9m
Themes: Computing, Networks, Software and algorithms
Applied Quantum Computing built a prototype hybrid quantum-classical model to predict risks for intensive care patients.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms, Biomedical and health
An ORCA-led consortium that designed and demonstrated how a quantum computer could sit inside a data centre alongside classical systems.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Communications, Networks
QCS
The phase 2 national hub for quantum computing and simulation, led by the University of Oxford. It ran from 2019 to 2024.
Role: Partner
Funding: £27.3m
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
Recent articles from Quantum Zeitgeist that mention University College London.
UCL and Siloton are co-developing a compact, quantum-enabled OCT device, funded by the NIHR, to monitor children’s eye health at home.
Image © Quantum Zeitgeist
New methods for CNOT and Clifford circuit synthesis outperform rustiq, tket, and qiskit, achieving lower two-qubit gate counts.
Image © Quantum Zeitgeist
Can a solid state device generate complex microwave signals without supercooling or vacuum conditions? Recent observations confirm that a nitrogen vacancy diamond maser does precisely this, exhibiting transitions from continuous wave emission through periodic pulsing to form a frequency comb spectru
Image © Quantum Zeitgeist
Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, recently visited CERN, continuing a family tradition—his father, Prince Philip, toured the facility in 1960.
Image © Quantum Zeitgeist
Research, commercial and investment relationships, by year. Partners with a profile here are linked.
Amazon Braket Research 2023
Quantinuum Research 2022
Riverlane Research 2022
Imperial College London Research 2021
Recorded on Imperial College London's profile.
National Physical Laboratory Research 2021
EPSRC Commercial 2020
Chosen by shared specialisms, then location and type.
University · London · 2 shared specialisms
University · Cambridge · 2 shared specialisms
University · Oxford · 2 shared specialisms
Research organisation · 2 shared specialisms
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