Biomedical Research Centre news

Bobby Gaspar

£1 million award to develop gene therapy for rare blood disorder FHL-2

12 Jun 2018, 9:31 a.m.

Professor Bobby Gaspar is to receive investment of up to £1million from the UCL Technology Fund (UCLTF) to support development of a gene therapy for familial haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (FHL type 2 or ‘FHL-2’) through to a clinical trial.

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Research Activity Trail at GOSH

Marking International Clinical Trials Day at GOSH

28 May 2018, 9:59 p.m.

Earlier this month patients and families at GOSH (Great Ormond Street Hospital) were given the chance to get hands-on with science at our Research Activity Trial and with special lessons in the hospital school.

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Ian Simcock - Research Radiographer at GOSH

NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellowships at GOSH: Class of 2018

15 May 2018, 3:02 p.m.

Three Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) staff members have been awarded National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Doctoral Fellowships.

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Professor Persis Amrolia

Autolus acquires rights to commercialise novel T-cell therapy developed at GOSH and UCLH

24 Apr 2018, 2:56 p.m.

The biopharmaceutical company Autolus has acquired global rights to develop and commercialize a novel T-cell therapy for the treatment of B-cell lymphomas and leukaemias.

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A woman at work in a lab, looking into a microscope.

London consortium secures £5 million to drive world-class university commercialisation

24 Apr 2018, 12:15 p.m.

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) GOSH Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is part of a new £5 million consortium led by Kings College London which will strengthen London’s status as a world centre of commercialisation in medical technologies

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