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Funding research, learning and innovation

As long as childhood diseases exist, we will keep striving to find their cure. Throughout history, research has played a vital role in increasing our understanding of illnesses, developing better treatment and equipment, and ultimately improving and saving lives. It’s our job to encourage the next great idea and we are committed to supporting high-quality research into children’s health and diseases.

Funds we raise from donors can enable researchers to come up with incredible medical advances which will have a real impact on young lives. Grants have resulted in high-quality, internationally recognised research, and have enabled our outstanding clinicians to become leaders of paediatric research. By funding research and learning, discovery of new cures, treatments and approaches, and equipping staff with new knowledge, skills and resources, we are doing more to accelerate and advance medical breakthroughs, improving our children’s chances and pioneering change for the next generation.

Thanks to the hard work of our research teams and clinical staff, we are leading the way with paediatric research in a number of areas including:

  • Childhood cancer
  • Inherited metabolic disorders / rare diseases
  • Liver disease
  • Infection, inflammation and immunity
  • Nutrition, growth and metabolism in childhood
  • Drug use in children
  • Relapsed and refractory acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
  • Infant neuroblastoma
  • Infant brain tumours

However every year, our dedicated staff need springboard funding to help them explore, study and test the next idea, the next treatment, the next change needed to transform medicine and treatment.    

We need your help to keep putting patients at the heart of research.

Here are just some of the ways your donations have helped support researchers at Birmingham Children’s Hospital make incredible medical advances.

Research Foundation

Set up in 2001,the Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust Research Foundation has awarded over £5million to researchers at both Birmingham Children's Hospital and Birmingham Women’s Hospital. Read more

Published: 8th August, 2017

Updated: 19th October, 2018

Author: Dawn Curnyn

Rare diseases

Rare diseases

We have made a commitment to transform the lives of future generations by funding research that will prevent, diagnose and cure rare diseases in children. That determination led us to being named the UK's Rare Diseases Research Collaboration Centre. Read more

Published: 8th August, 2017

Updated: 31st August, 2017

Author: Dawn Curnyn

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