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$225million investment for gene therapy spinout Orchard Therapeutics

19 Nov 2018, 11:17 a.m.

Orchard Therapeutics, has launched is initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq stock exchange. The company, which specialises in developing gene therapies for complex rare diseases, sold 14.3 million shares to raise $225 million of investment.

Mr Dominic Thompson, Consultant Neurosurgeon

First UK surgery in the womb for baby with spina bifida

24 Oct 2018, 12:01 a.m.

A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) have carried out the first two operations on the damaged spinal cords of babies in the womb, in what are the first surgeries of their kind in the UK.

Trying a vegetable biopsy at the BRC Family Fun Day

Getting hands-on with research

23 Oct 2018, 2:58 p.m.

Last weekend, we opened our doors to over 300 visitors for the annual Family Fun Day hosted by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

GOSH team reveals the world’s first functional tissue engineered oesophagus

16 Oct 2018, 3:18 p.m.

Researchers have grown the world’s first oesophagus engineered from stem cells and successfully transplanted them into mice, in a pioneering new study led by Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (IC

Junior rheumatology researchers awarded prizes at international conference

1 Oct 2018, 5:37 p.m.

Two researchers were recognised with prizes at the European Paediatric Rheumatology Congress in Lisbon this September.