Tuesday 27 June 2017 Advancing Neonatal Care Infant trial data has shown that Incereb's Neon EEG device can improve treatment for babies in neonatal care. As a world-renowned pregnancy research centre, Infant played a key role in securing Incereb's funding and distribution. Significant Collaboration Incereb's CEO Jim Roche called their collaboration with Infant "enormously significant" in attracting US distribution. Clinicians in the [...]
Tuesday 20 June 2017 At Infant, we are comitted to making science interesting and accessible to young learners. When our Outreach team visits schools, our clever robot friend Cubetto is always eager to join us! Recently, Cubetto paid a visit to junior and senior classes from St. Patrick's Infants National School in Cork. What is Cubetto? Cubetto is a robot toy which introduces [...]
Friday 19 May 2017 Monday 22 May 2017 will mark the first ever World Preeclampsia Day. Follow the #WorldPreeclampsiaDay hashtag on Twitter and share your story! Support the Thunderclap campaign to tell the world. Preeclampsia Can Affect ANY Woman At the INFANT Centre, we are working to combat preeclampsia with our IMPROvED project. Almost 1500 mothers in [...]
Monday 10 April 2017 Partnership Announced Between INFANT & Global Partners to Explore Optimal Nutrition for Premature Infants PiNPoINT Investigator team – L-R: Dr Elaine McCarthy, postdoctoral researcher, Dr Brendan Murphy, Consultant Neonatologist, CUMH, Teresa Berkery, Project Manager, Stephen Lane, Software Developer, Aileen Regan, Danone Nutricia, Ana-O’Reilly Marshall, Neonatal Research Dietician, Prof Mairead Kiely, [...]
Thursday 06 April 2017 William Hutch is a medical researcher from University College Cork. He has a PhD in neuroscience and is involved in the neonatal brain research group at INFANT. In his TEDxUCC talk, he reveals for the first time the undiscovered phenomenon of how we can now look at and listen to the [...]
Monday 03 April 2017 We look forward to seeing you there!
Friday 31 March 2017 Cork’s Lifelong Learning Festival promotes and celebrates learning of all kinds, whatever your age, interest or ability. Dr Simon Woodworth, will give a talk on his work as Lead Investigator in the LEANBH project at Blackrock Castle Observatory, in Blackrock, Cork at 20:00 on Friday 7 April. Learning to [...]
Thursday 30 March 2017 Groundbreaking Collaboration We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to explore the effects of sleep on baby brain development. INFANT, a world leading Science Foundation Ireland funded research Centre at University College Cork (UCC) and Cork University Maternity Hospital, announced today that it will collaborate with [...]
Wednesday 22 March 2017 "If You Go into the Wards Today ..." This week, children from three local schools in Cork brought their teddy bears to CUH's new outpatient paediatric department. These junior doctors were giving their cuddly patients a check up at our Teddy Bear Hospital. Organised by Cork University Hospital, the INFANT Centre and UCC's Medical Society, [...]
Monday 27 February 2017 Three new studies from the Pregnancy Loss Research Group have been published surrounding the impact of stillbirth and intrapartum death. Led by our PI, Dr Keelin O'Donoghue, the research explores the impact on parents and on healthcare professionals with recommendations for how to improve care. The death of a baby through stillbirth [...]