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NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre Showcase
23 Feb 2022, 5:06 p.m.
This exciting virtual event provided an opportunity for our community of researchers, funders, collaborators and external stakeholders to come together to celebrate the NIHR GOSH BRC's research activities and successes from across the last three years.
We featured research stories and successes from across the BRC, including from some of our early career researches, touching on future strategic direction of the themes.
It also highlighted some of our patient and public involvement and engagement activities and how the BRC plays a vital role in GOSH as a Research Hospital.
Around 320 people joined us from a wide range of backgrounds and fields and, along with the UK, we had international attendees from Taiwan, Italy, France, US, Canada, Germany, Ireland and Iceland. Thank you again for joining us.
We also ran a live vote for A Moment of Research 2021, with over 100 attendees voting. The winning image will be announced shortly.
Presentations from the NIHR GOSH BRC Showcase
You can watch sessions and individual presentations from the event below.
BRC Theme - Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Chair: Professor Jane Sowden, BRC Theme Lead
Research Hospital - Career Development
Chair: Dr Polly Livermore, Clinical Academic Programme Lead for Nurses and AHPs
BRC Theme - Genes, Stem and Cellular Therapies
Chair: Professor David Long, BRC Deputy Theme Lead
BRC Theme - Genomics and Systems Medicine
Chair: Professor Sergi Castellano, BRC Deputy Theme Lead
Research Hospital - Applied Child Health Informatics
Chair: Professor Pia Hardelid, BRC Deputy Theme Lead Elect
Research Hospital - Applied Child Health Informatics (ACHI) Theme
BRC Theme - Accelerating Novel Therapies
Chair: Dr Karin Straathof, BRC Deputy Theme Lead
Research Hospital - COVID-19
Chair: Dr Jenny Rivers, Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, GOSH
Image Competition & Closing Remarks
Chair: Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director
Important step forward in stem cell therapy for rare bowel disease
A new study led by researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) and the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, has demonstrated the potential of stem cell therapy to treat those with Hirschsprung disease.
First UK trial of Deep Brain Stimulation for children with epilepsy begins at GOSH
Discover how Oran became the first UK patient in a clinical trial using deep brain stimulation (DBS) for epilepsy. Learn about his 80% reduction in daytime seizures thanks to this innovative DBS treatment.
Studying the impact of environments on child health by linking big data
At GOSH we know that we're not caring for children if we're not caring for the environment. We spoke to Professor Pia Hardelid, who told us about a project which is helping us to understand the impacts of local environments on children’s health.
Blood test and AI could predict Parkinson’s seven years before symptoms
International researchers have developed a simple blood test that uses artificial intelligence to predict Parkinson’s up to seven years before the onset of symptoms, part-supported by the NIHR GOSH BRC