Biomedical Research Centre news

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Professor Lyn Chitty made a Dame in New Year's Honours

30 Dec 2022, 10:30 p.m.

Professor Lyn Chitty has been made a Dame in the 2023 New Year’s Honours List.

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Alyssa on ‘cell day’ - the day she received the base-edited cell therapy. May 2022.

GOSH patient receives world-first treatment for her 'incurable' T-cell leukaemia

11 Dec 2022, 8 a.m.

In May 2022, Alyssa, 13 from Leicester, became the first reported patient in the world to receive base-edited T-cells at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), in collaboration with the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS

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'Mini eyes’ help researchers understand blindness in rare condition

18 Nov 2022, 11:48 a.m.

Researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have grown ‘mini eyes’ in the lab which will help researchers understand how blindness develops in the rare genetic condition Usher syndrome.

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Celebrating three years of progress and breakthroughs at the ZCR

11 Nov 2022, 4:06 p.m.

We're celebrating three years of the Zayed Centre for Research. That's another year of breakthrough research, with hundreds of clinicians and researchers collaborating to help seriously ill children from across the globe.

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A Moment of Discovery 2022

9 Nov 2022, 3 p.m.

The Research and Innovation Communications team at GOSH/the NIHR GOSH BRC invite you to enter our Research and Innovation Showcase: A Moment of Discovery.

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