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Biomedical Research Centre news

A scientist holds a sample with gloved hands

Children at GOSH first to receive CRISPR-edited universal T-cells

27 Oct 2022, 9 a.m.

Researchers at GOSH and UCL GOS ICH are the first to use CRISPR/Cas9 technology to engineer donor T-cells to try to treat seriously ill children with resistant leukaemia

£35 million research boost for GOSH

14 Oct 2022, 10 a.m.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) has announced that the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) is one of 20 centres from across the country to receive 5-years of funding.

Europe-wide group to boost access to life-saving gene therapies

22 Sep 2022, 5 p.m.

A new Europe-wide academic group has been launched today to tackle the growing economic hurdles that are preventing new life-saving gene therapies getting to the children who need them the most.

Sampler in a lab in the Zayed Centre for Research

Investigating the rise in hepatitis in children

25 Jul 2022, 12:15 p.m.

Due to our world-leading expertise in genomics, we've teamed up with the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to understand why more children than normal are being diagnosed with liver infections (hepatitis)...

Structural imagine of the brain’s regions (left) and diffusion diagram of the wiring of a brain (right), which Lewis-Spitz Surgical Scientist Aswin Chari and his team analyse together to create a ’network’, as part of new epilepsy research which reveals how children with epilepsy have brains that are wired differently to children without the condition.

New research reveals brain wiring differences in children with epilepsy

13 Jul 2022, 2:30 p.m.

Children with epilepsy have brains that are wired differently from those without the condition, a new study by our researchers has found. This new epilepsy research paves the way for improved treatment, specifically how different surgery techniques can...