INFANT Spin-Out CergenX is using recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the early detection of abnormal brain activity in babies at birth. Founded in 2021, Cergenx aims to improve brain health monitoring in newborns by developing algorithms for screening all babies at birth for abnormal brain activity. The technology will enable early intervention by [...]
📣INFANT Seminar Series continues this Friday! 🗣Clinical Research Fellow Dr. Jurate Panaviene will present 💡Interim results of 50 infants enrolled in The NIOMI study: "Non-Invasive Lung Oxygen Monitoring in Term Infants’’. This clinical observational study is aiming to evaluate if a non-invasive GASMAS-based technology incorporated into Lung analyzer can detect oxygen and measure [...]
👏Check out this new paper just out from Dr Andrea Bowe ICAT fellow in INFANT 💡In this paper Andrea examines the potential of Big Data and Machine Learning to help us to identify those children most at risk of learning delay. 🔎 https://rdcu.be/cPi6Q
📣INFANT Research Centre attended the Irish Association of Allergy and Immunology (IAAI) Annual Meeting in Mullingar 🗣Dr Bailey Crowley gave the presentation: 💡'Observational Study: Sublingual Immunotherapy Compliance In The Paediatric Population' 🗣Caoimhe Cronin gave the presentation: 💡 'Education in AAI administration and anaphylaxis management in the paediatric allergy clinic: What we have learned so far' 📣Dr. Juan Enrique [...]
Last week the Pregnancy Loss Research Group at University College Cork and Cork University Maternity Hospital led by Prof Keelin O’Donoghue was awarded ‘Best Research Team of the year’ at the UCC Research awards. This multidisciplinary team is made up of doctors, midwvies, nurses, administrative staff, social workers, chaplains, health services/population health/ social science researchers, [...]
Last month Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Simon Woodworth travelled to the Kilimanjaro Region of Northern Tanzania as part of the Kilimanjaro ULTRA 2020 project funded by COALESCE. The ULTRA app is currently being trialed across Kilimanjaro and was designed to improve health outcomes of mothers and babies by enabling health officials to accurately record [...]
The INFANT Research Centre is tremendously proud to announce the admission of Professor and Director of INFANT Geraldine Boylan to The Royal Irish Academy alongside other new members, including INFANT Principal Investigator Professor Mairead Kiely. The Royal Irish Academy is Ireland’s leading body of experts in sciences & humanities, which provides expert advice; manages research projects; publishes books & journals; sustains [...]
Caroline is a PhD student at the INFANT Centre. Caroline completed her BSc Midwifery in the UCC in 2010. After graduating she travelled to Essex in the UK where she worked as a Band 6 Midwife in one of the largest and busiest maternity units in the country. She returned home at the end [...]
UCC to Lead Research on COVID-19 Infection and Vaccine Uptake During Pregnancy University College Cork (UCC) and Ulster University (UU) researchers have been awarded €200,000 from the Irish government as part of the North-South “Shared Island” research funding programme to conduct research on COVID-19 infection and vaccine uptake in pregnancy, and the effects of infection [...]
📣Dr Yvonne D'Art will present 'Single dose challenges in the diagnosis and management of cow’s milk allergy in infants' at the INFANT seminar 📅 Friday May 13th at 12pm 💡Cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA) is one of the most common food allergies in infancy. Single dose challenges are a new method of assessing dose reactivity [...]
