UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

History

Research

Library

• 105 study spaces with computers
• Quiet study area
• Study pod
• Separate room with 8 computers and soft furnishings.

Historical collections

Library opening hours

Strategic Partners

• Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
• GOSH-UCL Biomedical Research Centre
• Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity
• Centre for Research into Rare Diseases in Children
• UCL Partners

  Key facts

• In the Research Excellence Framework 2014, ICH was part of a UCL return to the Clinical Medicine sub-panel of Main Panel A. In this sub-panel, 80% of UCL research was assessed as either world-leading or internationally excellent. In the assessment of research power, UCL’s performance was top in the UK.
• Research grant income is around £32m per annum
• Bibliometric assessment of journal articles has placed ICH/GOSH in the top five children’s academic medical centres in the world. It was joint third for citation impact, fourth for most highly cited papers and fifth on the number of publications. NB.
• Thirteen Professors are Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences
• Ten Professor are NIHR Senior Investigators
• ICH leads the Child Health component of the UCL undergraduate medical degree for approximately 370 students each year, a vital component of training tomorrow’s doctors.
• ICH has nearly 400 postgraduate students, half of whom are undertaking taught programmes and half of whom are research students.

Notable faculty

• Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green, becomes Nuffield Professor of Child Health 1993 and Children’s Commissioner.
• Professor Sir Cyril Chantler, received a knighthood for his services to medicine in 1996, a former Chairman of the Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Chair of UCL Partners 2009-2014.
• Professor Carol Dezateux CBE, former head of the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at ICH, and now Director of the Life Study
• Professor Philip Graham, former Dean of the Institute, between 1985-1990
• Professor Christine Kinnon, Deputy Director at ICH and Vice-Dean for Education, Faculty of Population Health Sciences at UCL.
• Professor Catherine Law CBE, Deputy Director at ICH.
• Professor Roland Levinsky, former Dean and Director of the Institute, between 1990-1999.
• Professor June Lloyd, former Nuffield Professor of Child Health, between 1984-
• Professor Catherine Peckham CBE, who established the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Institute.
• Professor John Soothill, the Hugh Greenwood Professor of Immunology between 1965–1985.
• Professor Rosalind Smyth, Director UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
• Professor Terence Stephenson, Nuffield Professor of Child Health and Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
• Professor Otto Wolff, Nuffield Professor of Child Health, former Dean of the Institute, between 1982-1985.