Pregnancy loss, in the form of early or late miscarriage, or stillbirth, neonatal or infant death, occurs in 20-25% of pregnancies and is the most common complication of pregnancy. Dealing with the loss of a baby [...]
Monday 04 March 2019 The INFANT centre is made up of world-leading researchers from a variety of disciplines. Our engineers are involved in various research projects and their highly acclaimed work has been widely recognised. Our [...]
Friday 01 March 2019 Held annually in over 30 countries across the globe, FameLab is the world's largest science communication competition. The Cork event took place at Triskel Arts Centre on Wednesday night. Armed only with [...]
Thursday 28 February 2019 A team from INFANT travel to Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute in Moshi, Northern Tanzania this week. As Ireland’s first and only perinatal research centre, INFANT is focussed on making pregnancy safer and [...]
Tuesday 19 February 2019 This week, INFANT Director and Associate Investigators presented at ‘The Future of Machine Learning’ Conference at the Maryborough Hotel, Cork. The event organised by MIDAS, in conjunction with Qualcomm and UCC brought together experts in the [...]
Monday 04 February 2019 Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys TD, and Minister for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD, today announced €4.5 million in funding for 38 research projects to [...]
Friday 18 January 2019 CREATE was launched last night at St. Peters Gallery. The pregnancy and neonatal journey can be beautiful and scary, joyous and heartbreaking. It can be miraculous, frustrating, sought after or unexpected. It [...]
Wednesday 16 January 2019 At a launch event yesterday in Dublin, SFI revealed twenty projects are set to be funded by their Starting Investigator Research Grant (SIRG) in 2019. The prestigious grant for early career researchers [...]
Monday 07 January 2019 Lack of oxygen to the brain at birth affects almost 200 babies in Ireland each year and results in death or disability in over 2 million infants each year globally. The condition, [...]
Friday 21 December 2018 AI is helping babies at risk of brain injury Time is critical for doctors treating newborn babies with suspected brain injuries. The sooner treatments such as whole body cooling can be used, the [...]