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Biomedical Research Centre news

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Could adapting our sinks help combat super bugs?

16 Jan 2025, 5 p.m.

Discover how a Consultant Microbiologist at GOSH turned an innovative idea into a patented product that could revolutionise infection control in hospitals, schools, and airports – helping to stop superbugs like MRSA.

Millions in new funding for revolutionary paediatric intensive care trial

16 Jan 2025, 9:32 a.m.

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have received more than £6m in funding from the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).

Twelve days of Research and Innovation at GOSH

23 Dec 2024, 1:51 p.m.

It’s been a busy year for Research and Innovation at GOSH, with a number of ground breaking research trials, advanced data projects and technology pilots. To round off the year, here are just twelve of the stories (and amazing staff and researchers) that

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NIHR GOSH Clinical Research Facility celebrates patients and their families with a festive celebration

20 Dec 2024, 1:21 p.m.

On Wednesday 18 December we celebrated the festive period at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) GOSH Clinical Research Facility (CRF) on the 8th floor of the Southwood building.

Six spherical bundles of cells with complex networks are pictured, in two lines of three. These are (from left to right) gold, purple and green (top left), purple, green and yellow (bottom left), red and gold (top centre), blue and orange (bottom centre), green, purple and blue (top right), and yellow, blue and orange (bottom right).

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy gene therapy trial highlights complexity of disease

19 Dec 2024, 5:04 p.m.

The first large-scale trial of gene therapy for the debilitating neuromuscular disease, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) has been carried out