A new protein that appears to play a role in mitochondrial disease – a rare condition where a lack of energy in cells means that they can’t function properly – could prove to be important in conditions such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s dis
A collection of century old tumour samples held at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has helped shed light on the genetic mutations that cause some of the rarest childhood cancers.
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH) has been ranked 4th in the North Thames region for number of active clinical research studies in 2016/17, in figures released today by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
Walk down to Level 1 of the Frontage Building, and you'll discover the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Great Ormond Street Clinical Research Facility (CRF). This bright and colourful purpose-built centre provides a specialist ward area for c
A state-of-the-art stem cell research facility is now open at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), increasing our capacity for cutting edge research into regenerative medicine.
A whole team of people carry out research in Great Ormond Street Hospital. To thank them all on this International Clinical Trials Day, we’re sharing a picture drawn by one of the patients being seen.
Giving the drug sodium thiosulphate after chemotherapy reduces hearing loss in children treated for liver cancer, according to findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine today (Wednesday).
TJ is 14 and lives with his mum Janet, dad Kevin and brother Casey, 21 in Northamptonshire, a lot of TJ’s short life has been spent in and out of hospital.
Four collaborative research trials, which all included GOSH patients treated at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) GOSH Clinical Research Facility (CRF), have been recently published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine.
Last night we launched DRIVE – Digital Research, Informatics and Virtual Environments – a digital hub set to transform the use of technology in healthcare and improve patient outcomes at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and beyond.
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
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.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is to become the first hospital in the UK to offer a pioneering cancer therapy, known as CAR-T therapy, to NHS patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The first patients begin treatment at GOSH this we
Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is to become the first hospital in the UK to offer a pioneering cancer therapy, known as CAR-T therapy, to NHS patients with an aggressive blood cancer called B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
A whole host of exciting scientific discoveries have been made at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH). We’re unwrapping our biggest discoveries from the last 12 months.
In celebration of the Year of Zayed, Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) welcomed a delegation from the Government of Abu Dhabi this week. This year celebrates 100 years since the birth of th
Professor Bobby Gaspar, who has pioneered gene therapy research at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for the last 20 years, was a special guest at the Royal Institution Christmas lectures this year.
Twenty five young people came to Great Ormond Street Hospital’s (GOSH) new digital hub DRIVE last week as part of an event to help digital researchers and industry engage with a diverse group of young people and hear how their products could be improved t
To mark International Clinical Trials Day this May, we took a visit to the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) to meet with GOSH mum Flavia, whose son Matei has been on a clinical trial at the hospital for the last couple of years.
