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