Research Projects
St Mark’s Hospital Foundation is the only charity dedicated to funding research and discovery at St Mark’s which is enhancing disease understanding and tangibly improving patient care.
Thanks to our supporters, which include individuals, grant-making trusts and foundations, community groups and companies, St Mark’s Hospital Foundation is funding cutting-edge discovery and translational research, innovation, and education programmes to give more patients with complex, and rare, bowel disease the hope of a better future.
Our charitable activities are driven by our core principles.

Every charitable donation, no matter the size, makes it possible for us to support research, education, and innovation at St Mark’s, the UK’s national bowel hospital.
St Mark’s Hospital Foundation is the only charity dedicated to funding research and discovery at St Mark’s which is enhancing disease understanding and tangibly improving patient care.
St Mark’s Hospital Foundation helps meet the costs of up to 30 research fellows at any one time who maintain an active portfolio of multidisciplinary research projects at St Mark’s Hospital.
St Mark's Hospital Foundation financially and operationally supports the delivery of an annual programme of education to disseminate the best practice developed at St Mark’s Hospital with the national and international medical communities.
St Mark's Hospital Foundation is proud to fund cutting-edge technology and specialist equipment at St Mark’s Hospital to optimise how patients with bowel disease are diagnosed and treated.