On 1st April 2012, the UK Newborn Screening Programme Centre (UKNSPC) at Great Ormond Street Hospital celebrated its 10th anniversary. The programme identifies babies with rare conditions enabling early treatment.

GOSHCC Professor of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Jane Sowden, is part of a research team who have shown for the first time that transplanting light-sensitive photoreceptors into the eyes of visually impaired mice can restore their vision.

Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Institute of Child Health have reported that five patients with a rare genetic disorder, Chronic Granulomatous Disorder (CGD), have responded to gene therapy, showing clear clinical benefit.

The Centre, estimated to cost £66 million to build and equip, will bring together clinical and research expertise from Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL, in particular the Institute of Child Health.

Doctors at the UCL Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s research partner, have made progress towards engineering donated intestines, so that they can be implanted without rejection.

This month 21 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSHCC) supporters, including Dr Nikhil Thapar and Dr Neil Shah from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), are heading to Tanzania to climb Kilimanjaro. But it’s not the only mountain these doctors are trying to climb – understanding of gut conditions in children is limited. Research is painstaking and arduous – a bit like that famous mountain!

Researchers from University College London’s Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s research partner are seeking overweight teenagers between 13-17 years to take part in a free weight management programme in their community.

New research carried out by a team at the UCL Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital’s research partner, has added weight to the argument in favour of genetic testing of children before they are treated with certain antibiotics.

How are our faces constructed? How does your face differ from other faces? What do you look like in another dimension? These questions are all explored in Me in 3D, an exciting new event opening tomorrow at the Science Museum in London.