Biomedical Research Centre news

Experts across the UK come together to share cutting edge findings in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

18 Jul 2024, 1:20 p.m.

The CLUSTER Consortium celebrates over six years of research addressing the needs of children and young people with arthritis.

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Astronaut Tim Peake ‘launches’ our new NIHR Clinical Research Facility

15 Jul 2024, 3 p.m.

We were thrilled to have astronaut Tim Peake join us at the official launch of the new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) GOSH Clinical Research Facility where he met with patients, families, staff and children from the GOSH nursery.

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Young people want AI involved in their care, new GOSH study shows

10 Jul 2024, 2:21 p.m.

For the first time, a study has asked children and young people across all four UK nations for their views on how they would like AI to be used to enhance their healthcare

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World-first genomic testing scheme ensures every child gets the best cancer treatment for them

2 Jul 2024, 10 a.m.

Children with cancer are being offered treatment plans tailored to their specific cancer thanks to a single genomic test that reads more than three billion letters of DNA to identify cancer-causing mutations.

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Important step forward in stem cell therapy for rare bowel disease

27 Jun 2024, 11:15 a.m.

A new study led by researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) and the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, University of Sheffield, has demonstrated the potential of stem cell therapy to treat those with Hirschsprung disease.

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