The INFANT team attended and showcased at the Cork Carnival of Science event in June at Fitzgerald's Park. This event is Ireland's largest outdoor science engagement event and attracts over 25,000+ people each year and is filled with fun STEM activities, shows, workshops and is a fascinating weekend of discovery where families can unearth the [...]
CUH and UCC Paediatric Allergy Research group accredited as Center of Excellence by World Allergy Organisation, the first of its kind in Ireland. Recognition is a testament to the excellence in clinical care, education and research in Allergy and Immunology at our institutions. Allergies can affect all aspects of a child's daily life, including their [...]
INFANT, UCC spin-out company CergenX, won "UCC Spin-out Company of the Year" at the 2023 UCC Research and Innovation Awards. CergenX is a MedTech company founded in 2021 from INFANT, University College Cork. Its ambition is to make AI-powered brain health monitoring part of standard newborn screening for all infants at birth. Using AI technology, [...]
“Early detection of infant brain injury and cerebral palsy and why it matters”. On Friday 22 March, Professor Deirdre Murray gave her first public lecture as The Cerebral Palsy Foundation Chair in Early Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy at INFANT, UCC at the UCC Medicine and Health's Inaugural Philanthropic Lecture. Professor Murray was appointed to [...]
INFANT is delighted to be involved in the PAS 2022 Meeting in Denver 21-25 April. Members of the INFANT team will join thousands of physicians, researchers, and Allied health professionals from 60 + specialty areas as they come together to share research, explore new collaboratives, and experience the best the paediatric research community has to [...]
A graduate of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, INFANT PhD candidate, Tamara Escañuela Sánchez came to University College Cork to study under Professor Keelin O’Donoghue and develop a behaviour change intervention model that will raise awareness of and reduce the risk factors associated with stillbirth in Ireland. Tamara’s multidisciplinary supervisory team is composed by Dr. [...]
Liltoda Ltd, the first academic spin out to emanate from the INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork, has been awarded a GatewayUCC Sprint Award by Professor John O’Halloran, President of UCC. Launched in August 2021, Liltoda aims to develop and market novel technology-based solutions to the cognitive assessment of young children. Its first product, [...]
INFANT PhD researcher, Soraia Ventura, presented her research at the World Sleep Congress in Rome on March 14 and 15. The Congress consistently gathers the best minds in sleep medicine and research for multiple days of scientific sessions and networking. A truly global meeting, 77 countries were represented at World Sleep 2019, the last in-person [...]
Our next INFANT seminar will be this Friday, March 25th at 12pm, when Dr Mark O'Sullivan will present "Neonatal EEG monitoring - hardware, AI and medical device design". Dr O'Sullivan will present updates on the Neurobell Project, which aims to develop a portable neonatal EEG monitor with seizure detection, including methodologies for medical device design [...]
INFANT’s Dr Elaine McCarthy is the lead investigator on the IDEA project, a study that aims to develop two screening tools to identify iron deficiency among pregnant women and preterm infants. Funded by the Health Research Board (HRB), it is anticipated that the project will lead to the creation of screening tools that can be [...]
