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Features, news, stories and interviews from Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity.

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Image of part of the uncoiled mouse cochlea after treatment with gene therapy and in pink are the sensory hair cells which preserve hearing in mice with Norrie disease

Steps forward in gene therapy for Norrie Disease

3 Oct 2023, 12:02 p.m.

An international team led by researchers at GOSH, UCL and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) have been working hard to develop a novel gene therapy in mice to r…

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Hugo sitting in toy car in oncology ward. Smiling and looking to camera.

“He gets his car and rides around all three wards”– meet Hugo

11 Sep 2023, 5:28 p.m.

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we meet three-year-old Hugo.

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Sam is sitting in a wicker chair at a restaurant. He is smiling and looking at the camera.

Stealth image guidance systems help reduce risk during brain surgery

6 Sep 2023, 9:04 a.m.

A generous donation from the Kusuma Trust will go towards funding two new Image Guidance Systems to help children like Sam.

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Joshua wearing sunglasses, in the garden at the Sight and Sound Centre

Four-year-old Joshua takes part in RBC Race for the Kids to help beat childhood cancer

1 Sep 2023, 12:07 p.m.

Last summer, four-year-old Joshua started treatment at GOSH for rhabdomyosarcoma. Fast-forward a year, and today Joshua is doing well. This October, he’ll be taking part in our family fun run, RBC Race for the Kids, alongside dad Chris and mum Marik…

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Phot of Arianna at GOSH, smiling and looking to the side.

Only 2% of cancer research funding is dedicated to fighting children's cancer

31 Aug 2023, 12:01 p.m.

Cancer is the biggest killer in children aged one to 14 in the UK.

Yet despite this, on average, only 2 pence out of every £1 spent each year on cancer research goes towards dedicated research projects to find new ways of diagnosing and treating chil…

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