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Biomedical Research Centre news

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.

First research definition for ‘Long COVID’ in children and young people

8 Feb 2022, 9 a.m.

Teams based at UCL GOS ICH, including consultants from GOSH, have agreed the first research definition of what is meant by ‘Long COVID’ (post-acute COVID-19) in children and young people.

Rates of short-sightedness increasing in the UK

19 Jan 2022, 7 p.m.

New research suggests our changing environment, as well as changing gene-environment interactions, could explain increasing rates of short-sightedness over time in the UK.

Rapid immune response in children protects them from COVID-19

7 Jan 2022, 11 a.m.

Researchers at the NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) BRC, UCL and the Wellcome Sanger Institute discover how differences in the immune response of adults and children can help to explain why children are less likely to fall seriously ill with COVID

Amelia and Lena together outside. Amelia is in an wheelchair. They both make faces at the camera.

Pre-screening for Spinal Muscular Atrophy could change lives

7 Jan 2022, 6 a.m.

A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL GOS Institute of Child Health (ICH) have shown how ‘blood spot’ testing new-borns could identify children who will go on to develop Spinal Muscular Atrophy, (SMA).