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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]