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Portrait photograph of Professor Ulrika Kreicbergs

GOSH Charity and True Colours Trust announce funding partnership

7 Dec 2023, 4:02 p.m.

The £500,000 five-year partnership is towards the research programme of the new Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People

GOSH patient Gabriel smiling and playing in park.

Study into cancer care for autistic children and/or those with a learning disability begins

5 Dec 2023, 1:39 p.m.

A new study into how autistic children and/or those with a learning disability experience and respond to cancer care and treatment started in October.

This new research will take place thanks to more than £188k from GOSH Charity’s National Call – the…

Orla wearing a Christmas Santa hat with a pink dummy in her mouth and wearing a flowery cardigan sitting on a hospital bed

In memory of Orla

22 Nov 2023, 10:18 a.m.

Orla was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumour in September 2022. Over six months, she underwent intense treatment at GOSH, which involved spending her second birthday, Christmas and New Year at the hospital. In April 2023, she rang the end-of-tre…

Clinical trial results give new hope for children with rare gliomas

18 Nov 2023, 8 a.m.

A collaboration of researchers from across the world have published successful results from a Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of BRAF mutated low-grade paediatric gliomas. These are cancerous brain tumours that start in glial cells (the su…