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

Celebrating research that transforms lives

The 2025 NIHR GOSH BRC Showcase recently celebrated some incredible progress made in paediatric research.

Landmark gene therapy study shows safety for children

Results from the largest cohort of children who received a gene therapy for a rare immunodeficiency condition have shown the long-term safety and efficacy of the curative treatment.

New study pinpoints why some transplanted kidneys are rejected

Researchers at University College London (UCL), the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge combined technology that determines the genetic or RNA sequence of individual cells with powerful 3D imaging to look at lymphatic vessels

Scientists discover clues to help children with rare muscle disease

New ground-breaking research by experts at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) has led to an exciting discovery that could help children with the rare muscle disease, juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM).