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GOSH Charity commits largest amount yet towards 2023/24 National Funding Call

4 Jun 2024, 10:07 a.m.

Each year, we invite researchers from across the country to apply for funding through our National Call – the UK’s largest regular funding scheme dedicated towards research into rare or complex childhood diseases.

From these applications, we select a…

GOSH Charity to jointly fund two data-driven projects to advance research into childhood cancers

29 May 2024, 4:17 p.m.

GOSH Charity is proud to be jointly funding two research projects that will use data science to advance research into childhood cancers.

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Why we support GOSH Charity: Microsoft UK

24 May 2024, 9:41 a.m.

Since partnering with GOSH Charity in June 2023, the Microsoft UK Solutions team has raised almost £100,000 for the children, families and staff at GOSH. General Manager Tosca Colangeli shares what the partnership means to her team.

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‘It's not just about treatment, it's everything else too’: Meet Umar

15 May 2024, 12:44 p.m.

The new Children’s Cancer Centre at GOSH at will help children like Umar, who was diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer, at just three years old.

Now eight, Umar is stable and visits the hospital every three months for scans…