By Email: 8Th September 2015 Dear , Request for Information Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“The Act”) Further To

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By email:

8th September 2015

Dear ,

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (“the Act”)

Further to your recent request for information held by King’s College London, I am writing to confirm that the requested information is held by the university and a copy is enclosed with this letter.

Your request

We received your information request on the 1st September 2015 and have treated it as a request for information made under Section 1(1) of the Act.

You requested the following information:

“I am writing to request information about any relationships that the university has with the following Israeli academic institutions:

- Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology - Weizmann Institute of Science - Bar-Ilan University - Tel Aviv University - University of Haifa - Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Open University of Israel (OPENU) - Ariel University

If the university does have links with any of universities (including, but not limited to, joint/collaborative research, exchange programs, and joint courses) it would be useful to know:

- the nature of the relationship

- the details of any financial relationship involved - the start and expected end date of the relationship.”

Our response

Since 2010, the university has put in place several one-to-one agreements with some of these bodies to enable the exchange of confidential information (CDAs) or the exchange of material to allow academic research to be carried out (MTAs). There is also one agreement to enable mutual research collaboration. There is no financial relationship with regards to these arrangements, and further details are enclosed as a spreadsheet.

Please note that with regards to the last three agreements (highlighted in yellow) this is one agreement with two amendments to allow for further materials to be exchanged on the same terms.

As regards externally funded research awards, we have four projects where one of the organisation listed above is a collaborator on a project funded by another organisation. In one instance, the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) is receiving funding from the university from the main grant. We also have one other award that is actually funded by one of these bodies, the Weizmann Institute. Further details are enclosed as a spreadsheet.

Please note, that as one EU project can have up to thirty collaborators, we do not record the names of all the collaborators on our databases. However, this information is publically available on the EU’s CORDIS web site (http://cordis.europa.eu/home_en.html).

The university does not have any current connections with Israeli institutions within the work conducted by the Global Engagement Department.

Furthermore, the university does not have any student mobility or collaborative provision agreements in place with the institutions listed above.

This completes the university’s response to your information request.

Your right to complain

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your information request or feel that it has not been properly handled you have the right to complain or request a review of our decision by contacting the Legal Compliance Manager within 60 days of the date of this letter.

Further information about our internal complaints procedure is available at the link below: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/college/policyzone/assets/files/governance_and_legal/Freed om_of_Information_Policy_updated_Oct_%202011.pdf

In the event that you are not content with the outcome of your complaint you may apply to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Generally the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have exhausted the internal complaints procedure provided by King’s College London.

The Information Commissioner can be contacted at the following address:

The Information Commissioner’s Office Wycliffe House Water Lane Wilmslow Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Yours sincerely

Helen Dodd Head of Information Management and Compliance

3 Funder ProjectTitle StartDate EndDate Value to King's Partners Any cash to Partners

King's Health Partners Pharmaco-immunotherapy of ovarian 01-Feb-13 31-Jan-14 £82,349.00 Partners: Hebrew University of Jerusalem No cancer using T-cells and targeted liposomal amino-bisphosphonates Weizmann Institute of Science Roles of Acting Nucleation Factors in 01-Apr-13 30-Sep-15 £27,865.00 No Sarcomere Organisation and Function

Royal Society Algorithms for the Discovery of 01-Dec-13 30-Nov-15 £12,000.00 Partners: Bar-Ilan University No Approximate Regularities in Strings

Google Inc. Facilitating Code Merging with User- 01-Jan-14 31-Dec-14 £20,621.84 Partners: University of Oxford, Queen Mary, University of Subcontracts to Oxford University ($11322), Defined Abstractions London, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology QMUL ($1500) and Technion ($12,000)

Wellcome Trust Molecular basis of invasive growth 01-Oct-14 30-Sep-17 £10,000.00 Partners: University of Manchester, University of No during mould infection of the lung. Aberdeen, Tel Aviv University, University of Massachusetts Lowell Agrmnt Id Title Party Effective DateType Status Termination Date, where specified CDA1099 CDA to view Yissum patent on Liposomes carrying Zolendroate Yissum Research Development Company of t26/04/2011 Confidentiality 07. Fully Executed MTA1584 Comparative Genetic- Epidemiological study of Interleukin (IL)-6 Circulatory Levels Tel Aviv University 06/06/2010 MTA 07. Fully Executed 05/06/2012 MTA1766 Nutrition Association Studies (E160) Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 12/09/2010 MTA 08. Expired 12/09/2013 MTA1819 Contribution of genetic factors to inter-individual variation of lean body mass (E108Tel Aviv University 15/02/2011 MTA 07. Fully Executed 15/02/2014 MTA2212 CX3CL1-Cherry BAC transgenic mice Weizmann Institute of Science 13/12/2011 MTA 07. Fully Executed MTA2438 Transgenic mice: Cx3cl1-cherry BAC transgenic mice Weizmann Institute of Science 19/09/2012 MTA 07. Fully Executed MTA2571 Gene expression measurements and SNP genotypes, GWAS scan data, GWAS summWeizmann Institute of Science 11/06/2013 MTA 07. Fully Executed 11/06/2016 MTA2932 CX3CR1-Cre mice Weizmann Institute of Science 17/09/2013 MTA 07. Fully Executed MTA3426 Plasmids (PNx24, pCNDA4-MS2-CP-GFP-SBP, pcDNA4-NLS-MS2-CP-GFP) Weizmann Institute of Science 20/05/2015 MTA 07. Fully Executed RCA118 Letter Agreement for Collaboration with Yissum Yissum Research Development Company of t02/07/2012 Research Collaboration (no cash valu 07. Fully Executed TTA0402 Post-mortem human tissue samples donated to brain bank under informed consenTel Aviv University 10/02/2014 MTA 07. Fully Executed 10/02/2016 TTA0402 - amend #1 additional tissue - CSF samples from 10 Control and 10 Alzheimer's patients (1 ml e Tel Aviv University 27/11/2014 MTA 07. Fully Executed 27/11/2015 TTA0402 -amend#2 amendment to permit Material extracts (tau protein) to be sent to Mass SpectromeTel Aviv University 13/07/2015 MTA 07. Fully Executed 13/07/2014