NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre Showcase

23 Feb 2022, 5:06 p.m.

RDC Symposium Event 2019

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.

We featured research stories and successes from across the BRC, including from some of our early career researches, touching on future strategic direction of the themes.

It also highlighted some of our patient and public involvement and engagement activities and how the BRC plays a vital role in GOSH as a Research Hospital.

Around 320 people joined us from a wide range of backgrounds and fields and, along with the UK, we had international attendees from Taiwan, Italy, France, US, Canada, Germany, Ireland and Iceland. Thank you again for joining us.

We also ran a live vote for A Moment of Research 2021, with over 100 attendees voting. The winning image will be announced shortly.

Presentations from the NIHR GOSH BRC Showcase

You can watch sessions and individual presentations from the event below.

Chair: Professor Jane Sowden, BRC Theme Lead

Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TERM) Theme

Chair: Dr Polly Livermore, Clinical Academic Programme Lead for Nurses and AHPs

Research Hospital - Career Development

Chair: Professor David Long, BRC Deputy Theme Lead

Genes, Stem and Cellular Therapies (GSCT) Theme

Chair: Professor Sergi Castellano, BRC Deputy Theme Lead

Genomics and Systems Medicine (GSM) Theme

Chair: Professor Pia Hardelid, BRC Deputy Theme Lead Elect

Research Hospital - Applied Child Health Informatics (ACHI) Theme

Chair: Dr Karin Straathof, BRC Deputy Theme Lead

Accelerating Novel Therapies (ANT) Theme

Chair: Dr Jenny Rivers, Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, GOSH

Research Hospital - COVID-19

Chair: Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director

Image Competition & Closing Remarks

GOSH manufactures new gene therapy for rare condition

A specialist laboratory team based at Great Ormond Street Hospital have manufactured a new gene therapy to treat a baby with the rare genetic condition, Hunter Syndrome.

Celebrating the Impact of the Professor Maria Bitner-Glindzicz Memory Fund

The third annual report of the Maria Bitner-Glindzicz Memory Fund has just been compiled - The fund continues to support ground-breaking research and early career development.

Mystery of treatment resistant childhood leukaemia uncovered

Discovery of a new cancer cell type could enable testing to predict treatment-resistant blood cancer in children with a certain type of leukaemia.

A year of research impact for nursing and allied health professionals

The ORCHID annual report shines a spotlight on the extraordinary contributions of nursing and allied health professionals to research and innovation