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INFANT Research Day 2017

By |2020-11-22T12:53:24+00:00October 20th, 2017|

Friday 20 October 2017 This Research Day will share, promote and facilitate discussion on cutting edge, best practice perinatal research from international experts and early career researchers on how to improve health outcomes for pregnancy, infancy and childhood. The event will take place in the Clayton Hotel, Lapps Quay, Cork.    Registration Opens at 08:15.    Our Programme begins at 08:45 [...]

Women Mean Business: Award for INFANT

By |2020-11-22T12:53:41+00:00October 12th, 2017|

Thursday 12 October 2017 WMB held its 11th annual Women Mean Business Conference & Awards in Dublin’s Shelbourne Hotel on 2nd October. The event recognises the achievements of businesswomen and entrepreneurs across Ireland. Prof Louise Kenny of the INFANT Centre was honoured with the WMB Woman in Technology Award for 2017 for her work as founding [...]

IRC Scholarship for Sophie Casey

By |2020-11-22T12:54:00+00:00October 4th, 2017|

Wednesday 04 October 2017   A blog post from Sophie Casey:    I was recently awarded the Irish Research Council’s Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship for a 4 year PhD project. My work will investigate the downstream targets and effects of microRNA alterations in neonatal hypoxic encephalopathy (HIE) – a leading cause of infant mortality [...]

An Invitation to Remember

By |2020-11-22T12:54:18+00:00October 3rd, 2017|

Tuesday 03 October 2017 A  Service of Remembrance will be hosted by Cork University Maternity Hospital on   Friday 13th October 2017 at 7.30pm   Sacred Heart Church, Western Road, Cork   All who have experienced or been affected by pregnancy loss or infant loss are very welcome to attend.                   [...]

ICAT Fellow Joins Infant

By |2020-11-22T12:54:59+00:00August 21st, 2017|

Monday 21 August 2017 Infant Welcomes Dr. Peter Barrett The Wellcome-HRB Irish Clinical Academic Training Programme (ICAT) has welcomed its first intake of fellows at an induction event, held recently at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. We are delighted to announce that Dr. Peter Barrett, ICAT fellow, has been appointed to UCC and will begin [...]

Infant Researchers Win Emerging Investigator Award

By |2020-11-22T12:54:47+00:00August 21st, 2017|

Monday 21 August 2017 Promising Research Infant is proud to congratulate Dr. Cathal McCarthy and Dr. Jane English, who have both won an Emerging Investigator Award from the Health Research Board. The HRB Emerging Investigator Awards supports researchers in the middle of their careers to build sustainable research programmes. With an investment of €8.3 million, the HRB [...]

ISA Cork 2017

By |2020-11-22T12:55:33+00:00July 31st, 2017|

Monday 31 July 2017 The International Stillbirth Alliance Annual Conference will be held in Cork, Ireland from 22-24th September 2017 at the University College Cork campus. The Conference will take place over two days, Saturday and Sunday, with a mixture of plenary and concurrent sessions from invited speakers and selected presentations from conference abstracts. 10 CPD points will be [...]

A Marathon Effort!

By |2020-11-22T12:55:47+00:00July 18th, 2017|

Tuesday 18 July 2017 On 4 June, the amazing Jane O'Sullivan ran in the Cork Marathon - all 26 miles and 385 yards of it - in aid of the research in the INFANT Centre. We are overwhelmed by Jane's efforts and generosity, and of all the people who donated to her. We are so thankful for your support [...]

Prof. Louise Kenny: Science Hero

By |2020-11-22T12:56:13+00:00July 11th, 2017|

Tuesday 11 July 2017 Professor Louise Kenny wins Guaranteed Irish Science Hero award Professor Louise Kenny, Director of INFANT, has just been named as the Guaranteed Irish Science Hero for 2017. Prof Kenny was selected for the award following a public nomination process and received the award at the INFANT Research Centre, a world-leading Science [...]

INFANT Success at Irish Signals & Systems Conference (ISSC)

By |2020-11-22T12:56:27+00:00July 4th, 2017|

Tuesday 04 July 2017 The paper is entitled "V2Hz: Music Composition from Wind Turbine Energy using a Finite-State Machine" and will be published on IEEEExplore. The paper explores the spatial sonification of distributed information sources based on an algorithmic approach to music. By developing an algorithm that adopts the rules of music theory, it was possible to [...]