New centre announced

The Zayed Centre for Children’s Rare Disease Research, estimated to cost £85 million to build and equip, will bring together clinical and research expertise from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL, in particular the Institute of Child Health.
 Once opened, the opportunities for children with rare diseases to participate in studies and help doctors and scientists advance understanding of their condition and find effective treatments will increase. Work carried out in the new centre will mean that the hospital can start to help more children more quickly.

Great Ormond Street Hospital is well placed for a centre of this kind. The hospital’s clinical teams see many children with rare conditions from all over the UK and overseas, across a wide range of clinical specialities. It is the largest recipient of nationally commissioned NHS funding in the country, in recognition of the doctors seeing more children with rare diseases than probably anywhere else in the world.

29th February 2012