INFANT PI chats to BBC World News

By |2020-11-22T12:31:20+00:00April 4th, 2020|

Saturday 04 April 2020 We have collaborated with our colleagues in Cork University Maternity Hospital to provide virtual visiting for babies in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The new initiative allows families to remotely check-in [...]

INFANT Centre providing virtual visitation for families

By |2020-11-22T12:31:34+00:00April 2nd, 2020|

Thursday 02 April 2020 The INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork in collaboration with Cork University Maternity Hospital, Ireland South Women & Infants Directorate have introduced a secure video messaging platform called vCreate in the Neonatal Intensive [...]

Brain Awareness Week 2020

By |2020-11-22T12:31:48+00:00March 20th, 2020|

Friday 20 March 2020 To celebrate Brain Awareness Week 2020 we asked our INFANT physchologists what a typical working day looks like for them. Meet Leanna - Clinical Neuropsychologist at INFANT Please describe your job: What [...]

A Day in the Life of…

By |2020-11-22T12:32:03+00:00March 18th, 2020|

Wednesday 18 March 2020 Meet Triona - Research Psychologist at INFANT   Please describe your job: What do you do? I work as a Research Psychologist with children from birth to 3 years of age. This [...]

Miscarriage Matters – new website launched

By |2020-11-22T12:32:22+00:00March 2nd, 2020|

Monday 02 March 2020 The Pregnancy Loss Research Group and INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork today launched www.corkmiscarriage.com, a first-of-its-kind website in Ireland. One in four pregnancies end in first-trimester miscarriage. For many women and their [...]

Mushrooms may alleviate features of Pre-eclampsia

By |2020-11-22T12:32:49+00:00February 5th, 2020|

Wednesday 05 February 2020 New research reveals that a substance, L-ergothioneine, most commonly found in mushrooms, could help alleviate some features of pre-eclampsia. Pre-eclampsia is a complex disorder of pregnancy that can have potentially serious consequences [...]

INFANT competing for SFI Future Innovator Prize

By |2020-11-22T12:33:18+00:00January 30th, 2020|

Thursday 30 January 2020 INFANT team announced as one of eleven competitors in the SFI Artificial Intelligence for Societal Good Challenge. The prize offers €2 million each in funding to teams that win competitions in the [...]

GCP training for INFANT staff

By |2020-11-22T12:33:32+00:00January 6th, 2020|

Monday 06 January 2020 Good Clinical Practice Course   Refresher GCP Course – INFANT 2020 (2.5-hour course) Please note, there must be a minimum of 5 participants for the course to be run. 15 JAN 2020 Morning [...]

So proud of our growing INFANT

By |2020-11-22T12:34:20+00:00December 18th, 2019|

Wednesday 18 December 2019 Taken from UCC's Independent Thinking Magazine. Professor Geraldine Boylan tells Michelle McDonagh how the inspiring team at the Irish Centre for Maternal and Child Health Research is continuing to make a name nationally and internationally for its [...]

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