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‘He’s getting back to being the happy boy he was’: Meet Frank

13 Apr 2026, 1:51 p.m.

When he was 15 months old, Frank was diagnosed with a rare type of cancerous brain tumour. Read his story.

A little boy lying on a hospital bed with a therapy dog

GOSH Charity and LifeArc commit close to £1m for life-saving child health research across UK

31 Mar 2026, 10:37 a.m.

Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity) and self-funded medical research organisation LifeArc have partnered again to support three research projects.

A researcher using a pipette at a lab bench

GOSH Charity-funded team engineers first lab-grown oesophagus in breakthrough for children’s surgery

20 Mar 2026, 11:31 a.m.

Scientists from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) have created the first lab-grown oesophagus.

Microscope image of epithelial tissues

‘She’s found her feet now’: Meet Yumna

13 Mar 2026, 10:26 a.m.

Yumna was less than two years old when she was diagnosed with high risk neuroblastoma. Four years later, she’s back to being herself.

Little girl holding wand and kissing her mum on cheek

New childhood cancer research collaborations through C-Further

10 Mar 2026, 10:33 a.m.

We're funding two new international cancer research projects. These collaborations are through the C-Further initiative, which is focused on new treatments for childhood cancers.

Little boy sitting on hospital bed, smiling to camera