Monday 01 October 2018 Following an SFI Research Centre programme call for funding, the new proposal of the INFANT Centre at UCC has not been funded at this time but instead has been recommended to proceed to a national open call in 2020. The Centre opened in 2013 with initial funding from Science Foundation Ireland, [...]
Monday 24 September 2018 Rhodri Cusack is the Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in Trinity College Dublin, and a world-renowned expert in his field. Prof Geraldine Boylan, Director of the INFANT Centre noted that “The appointment of Prof Cusack as an INFANT PI is very exciting, it expands the impact INFANT will have, and [...]
Wednesday 05 September 2018 An Post unveiled four €1 stamps on Wed 5 September titled "Irish Scientific Discoveries" at the international Schrodinger at 75 Conference in the National Concert Hall. The series of stamps highlight recent scientific discoveries made by scientists who work in pioneering research and development in Ireland. The science-based stamps represent new areas of research, [...]
Friday 22 June 2018 MINISTER COVENEY OPENS NEW €5MILLION UCC PAEDIATRIC ACADEMIC UNIT Ireland’s first integrated paediatric academic unit was officially opened on Monday 18th June by Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney, T.D. Following a multi-million euro investment by University College Cork, Science Foundation Ireland, and a generous philanthropic donation, the new unit [...]
Thursday 07 June 2018 New Research our Sphere Programme PhD candidate, Gillian Maher, has been published in JAMA Psychiatry. The work is exploring the association between hypertensive disorders of pregnancy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and other neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring. Exposure to hypertensive disorders of pregnancy is associated with a small increase [...]
Monday 21 May 2018 INFANT is pleased to announce that it has been awarded €800,000 under the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI2) to improve clinical trial infrastructure for children and infants in Ireland. Part of this funding will be used to set up a new network, In4Kids, to facilitate the development of new drugs for children in Ireland. In4Kids will [...]
Wednesday 16 May 2018 We were delighted on Friday 11 May to launch the B-BEST START LifeMatters for Mums, Dads and New Born Babies handbook on Friday with author Dr Margaret O’Rourke, and alongside our Principal Investigator Prof Eugene Dempsey and Director, Professor Geraldine Boylan. The B-BEST START Programme is part of the [...]
Monday 23 April 2018 A collaboration between INFANT, the Embedded Systems group in the Dept of Engineering in University College Cork, and engineers in Tyndall National Institute has won a prestigious Collaboration Award from the Irish Laboratory Awards group. The Irish Laboratory Awards has established itself as the premier event in Ireland for benchmarking those [...]
Monday 29 January 2018 The loss of a baby has a profound effect on the family. Twelve families bereaved by stillbirth took part in a research study by the Pregnancy Loss Research Group at the INFANT Centre and UCC, the results of which have been published today. Each of the parents detailed the events and [...]
Tuesday 07 November 2017 We are delighted that our Dr Deirdre Twomey has won the Cure and Care award at the jENS 2017 Conference in Venice on 1 November. The jENS 2017 conference is a joint meeting of all the European Neonatal societies, the largest European Neonatal Research meeting to date. BiHIVE’s Psychology Postdoctoral Researcher Deirdre [...]