The college is looking at proposals to shed staff as a result of the merger between Imperial College, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith.
The first academic health science centre (AHSC) was created in October 2007 when Imperial College London's faculty of medicine merged with the Hammersmith Hospitals and St Mary's NHS trusts.
Designer Jonathan West from the Helen Hamlyn Centre, part of the Royal Collegeof Art, and fellow designer Sally Halls, said the new trolley is set to start trials at St Mary's.