Great Ormond Street Hospital has today received a very generous donation from Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, wife of the late founder of the United Arab Emirates. This gift will enable our planned centre dedicated to paediatric research into rare diseases to be built and open on schedule in 2018.
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity is inviting project grant applications, from across the UK, which support translational research into rare diseases and which will impact patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and elsewhere.
Children with moderate to severe cystic fibrosis (CF) enrolled on a programme offering physiotherapy, dietary support and personal training sessions at their local gym, were found to spend less time in hospital receiving antibiotics, as well as boosting their exercise capacity.
The genetic cause of a rare condition which causes large moles to grow on the skin and brain before birth and which increases the risk of melanoma, has finally been identified in a study led by the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
Researchers at the UCL Institute of Child Health (ICH) are investigating a new treatment that could work alongside folic acid to boost its effectiveness and prevent a greater proportion of neural tube defects in early pregnancy.
The possibility of using animal parts to overcome human organ shortages moves one step closer following the successful transplant of rabbit skeletal muscle tissue into rats, by a team led by the UCL Institute of Child Health.
