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New VR game to help children rehabilitate after brain tumour treatment

15 May 2025, 1:28 p.m.

The National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) is working with partners to develop a new virtual reality (VR) game.

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New 'Secure Data Environment' joint offering from GOSH and Aridhia to accelerate clinical research and healthcare innovation

21 May 2025, 2:35 p.m.

We are expanding our partnership with Aridhia to include an offer to external partners.

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NIHR GOSH CRF celebrates International Clinical Trials Day

21 May 2025, 6:09 p.m.

On Tuesday 20 May we celebrated International Clinical Trials Day in NIHR GOSH Clinical Research Facility (CRF).

Making it easier to invest in frontline care

12 Jun 2025, 4:53 p.m.

GOSH and UCL have signed a landmark agreement to simplify the commercialisation of any joint research and innovation and ensure any financial proceeds are shared equally.

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Genes may help to predict which children will respond well to arthritis treatment

16 Jun 2025, 4:37 p.m.

A team of researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) have identified a set of genes that could be used to help doctors predict which children will respond well to treatment for juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Toddler doing well after receiving newest gene therapy available on NHS

25 Jun 2025, 9:23 a.m.

A toddler with a life-limiting and life-threatening rare disease is the youngest to be treated with the newest gene therapy available on the NHS at GOSH.

Young people donate tissue samples to unlock mysteries of arthritis

2 Jul 2025, 9:49 a.m.

A new groundbreaking study led by researchers at the University of Birmingham, Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College London and Birmingham Children’s Hospital has revealed important clues into what is driving arthritis in children.

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Stem cell treatment can improve rare skin condition in children

15 Aug 2025, 9:46 a.m.

Children with a rare skin condition have found their symptoms have improved through taking part in the largest clinical trial of its kind, led by clinicians at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH).

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Teenager off to university after life-changing gene therapy

18 Aug 2025, 6 a.m.

A teenager with a rare, life-limiting genetic condition is off to university after receiving a gene therapy that changed his life.

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New national registry for inherited hearing loss

26 Aug 2025, 2:20 p.m.

A new national registry is helping researchers understand more about inherited hearing loss – and could help bring about new treatments.

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Nanodiamonds and hormones used in rare condition to promote lung growth

27 Aug 2025, 9 a.m.

An international research team led by GOSH, UCL and KU Leuven in Belgium, is using 3D-printing and nanodiamonds, to design treatments that could help babies repair their damaged lungs in the womb.

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What do bush babies, tamarin monkeys, and mouse lemurs have that humans don’t?

28 Aug 2025, 10:41 a.m.

GOSH imaging researchers have worked with teams in Harvard in the USA to work out how and when our pelvises developed to be different from other animals.

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GOSH-led trial of AI-scribe technology shows ‘transformative’ benefits for patients and clinicians across London

4 Sep 2025, 6 a.m.

A major GOSH-led study has found that AI-scribing technology can significantly reduce clinician workload while improving patient care

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Scientists discover clues to help children with rare muscle disease

8 Sep 2025, 4:20 p.m.

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).

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New study pinpoints why some transplanted kidneys are rejected

17 Sep 2025, 8:44 p.m.

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

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Good Hope Works at GOSH

17 May 2017, 12:53 p.m.

Good Hope Works is an exciting creative research project facilitated by GOSH Arts and undertaken by artist Joanna Brinton. The project has engaged staff from across Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and will culminate in the installation of a permanent

£1 million award to push forward regenerative medicine research

13 Dec 2018, 10:19 a.m.

Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) are to lead a new collaboration exploring how stem cells can be engineered to evade immune responses.

AI bodysuit trial launched to help treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy

1 Feb 2018, 11:57 a.m.

A new artificially intelligent bodysuit to help understand how mobility is affected in boys with Duchenne will be trialled in a collaboration between researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Imperial College London.

BRC researchers part of collaboration to improve efficiency of gene therapy products

26 Jul 2018, 3:56 p.m.

A new collaboration aiming to develop advanced technologies for manufacturing ex vivo gene therapy products has been established between researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Plasticell, a developer of stem cell techno

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Cutting edge new method reveals novel cause of Juvenile dermatomyositis

25 Jun 2018, 10:18 a.m.

A new in-depth method has helped shed light on the key role of B cells, a type of immune cell, in the rare childhood condition Juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM).