King’s College London receives historic £35m research donation

King’s College London has received a historic donation of £35 million to advance health research.

The staggering sum is the largest donation to date by a single donor in the university’s history and will be used to improve maternal, child, and lifelong health through personalised human and AI-driven interventions.

The £35 million investment came from Inkfish, a philanthropic research organisation founded in 2021. Inkfish’s historic donation reflects the institutions commitment to advancing science and improving lives through bold, future-facing innovation.

As part of the transformative donation, the company will also support the next generation of researchers by establishing Inkfish Fellowships and Inkfish PhD Studentships to work on the project.

The money will fund research which aims to transform maternal, child and lifelong health through a personalised human and artificial intelligence (AI) intervention.

Vice Chancellor Shitij Kapur expressed his gratitude for the donation: ‘We are immensely grateful to Inkfish for their longstanding generosity and interest in child health at King’s.

“King’s has a rich history of developing novel ways to improve child and maternal health and informing policy. This extraordinarily generous gift will accelerate better outcomes for mothers, their partners and their children in the UK and around the world, enabling them to have the best start in life.”