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Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children

aka GOSH, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

London's children's hospital, where gene-edited 'universal' CAR-T cells were first given to a child with leukaemia.

Founded in 1852, Great Ormond Street Hospital is the UK's largest children's hospital and, with the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, one of Europe's leading paediatric research centres. In 2015 Waseem Qasim's team treated an infant with refractory leukaemia using TALEN-edited allogeneic CAR-T cells, the first such use in humans, and in 2022 the team delivered the first base-edited CAR-T (CD7-directed) for T-cell leukaemia. The hospital runs one of the UK's largest paediatric oncology and haematology services, including bone marrow transplantation, neuro-oncology and neuroblastoma programmes, and hosts the Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children. It is a principal treatment centre for London and a national referral site for rare childhood cancers.

Location
London, GB
Type
hospital · University College London
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#244 · 24 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 24 from 12 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Gene-edited CAR-T (Qasim)
  • Paediatric haematology and transplant
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Neuroblastoma
  • Zayed Centre for Research

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