Biomedical Research Centre news

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New hope to prevent blindness in children with rare genetic disease

5 Nov 2024, 5:59 p.m.

A new treatment that could prevent blindness in children with the CLN2 type Batten disease has been trialled by Clinicians at GOSH and University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH).

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GOSH only hospital outside of North America to receive innovation funding award for AI

31 Oct 2024, 11:52 a.m.

GOSH has been awarded the Amazon Web Services IMAGINE Grant: Children’s Health Innovation Award, to support artificial intelligence (AI) development and drive progress for children’s healthcare.

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New clinical trial at GOSH gives hope to children with aggressive blood cancer

14 Oct 2024, 3 p.m.

Researchers at GOSH and UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) are collaborating on a novel approach to clinical trials to give hope to children with an aggressive type of blood cancer, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL)

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GOSH wins funding for technology to support research to improve children’s health outcomes

11 Oct 2024, 2 p.m.

GOSH has been successful in obtaining funding of £1.46m from the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s (NIHR) Capital Investment Bid.

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Potential new target found for childhood kidney disease

19 Sep 2024, 12:17 p.m.

An international research team including researchers from GOSH have identified a new feature of a rare kidney disease in children that could help develop improved treatments.

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