https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/news/nihr-great-ormond-street-hospital-biomedical-research-centre-showcase/
NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre Showcase
23 Feb 2022, 5:06 p.m.
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
Chair: Dr Polly Livermore, Clinical Academic Programme Lead for Nurses and AHPs
Chair: Professor David Long, BRC Deputy Theme Lead
Chair: Professor Sergi Castellano, BRC Deputy Theme Lead
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
Chair: Dr Jenny Rivers, Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, GOSH
Chair: Professor Ros Smyth, UCL Institute of Child Health Director
Better understanding leukaemia for children with down syndrome
Researchers have mapped the evolution of a type of leukaemia that is exclusive to children with Down syndrome and may have identified an overarching weakness in the cancer's genetic makeup.
Gentler treatment eliminates early deaths for children with relapsed leukaemia
A groundbreaking national study led by clinicians at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) has shown that children and young people with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) can be treated safely with significantly less intensive chemotherapy.
NHS eye gene therapy restores Saffie's sight
Saffie has had her sight restored thanks to life-changing eye gene therapy for rare blindness at GOSH
£3M study led by patient voices targets pain in inflammatory arthritis
A new £3 million research programme involving Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London researchers aims to tackle one of the largest unmet clinical needs in inflammatory arthritis – pain reduction.