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Caleb's Story

16 Dec 2022, 12:28 p.m.

For the children whose treatment needs to continue over the festive season, the staff at GOSH do their best to make it as magical as possible. This includes Caleb, who spent his second ever Christmas in surgery, before having a heart transplant on N…

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GOSH researchers develop treatment for leukaemia

12 Dec 2022, 10:46 a.m.

In a world first, researchers at GOSH and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) have used genetically modified cells – created using a new technique called base editing – to treat a patient with previously incurable leu…

Alyssa in bed at GOSH smiling to camera

Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children celebrates three years

9 Nov 2022, 10:11 a.m.

GOSH's Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children celebrates its third anniversary this month. The milestone marks another year of breakthrough research, with hundreds of clinicians and researchers collaborating to help seriously i…

Artwork on the wall at the Zayed Centre for Research reading "Together we can do so much"

Growing up with GOSH: Jake's story

16 Sep 2022, 10:57 a.m.

This October, Jake, a Studio Manager and Engineer originally from Norwich, will be taking part in our fun run RBC Race for the Kids.

Jake was a patient at GOSH for 14 years, treated for a rare condition called mid-aortic syndrome.

Here Jake tells us a…

Photo of Jake today, looking to the side