Monthly Archives: June 2022

INFANT Seminar Series

By |2022-06-27T10:13:12+01:00June 27th, 2022|

📣Final #SeminarSeries before summer break takes place this Friday at 12pm!   🗣 Sonia Lenehan will speak about Science4SightLoss   💡Science4SightLoss is an SFI Discover funded collaboration between INFANT, UCC and Ireland's national sight loss agency the National Council for the Blind (NCBI). Sonia will present a project update with preliminary results.   #Science4Sightloss #UCCResearch

New paper by PI’s Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Fergus McCarthy

By |2022-06-23T10:02:26+01:00June 23rd, 2022|

👏Check out this new paper just out from INFANT Principal Investigators Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Fergus McCarthy 💡'Role of Antihypertensive Treatment and Blood Pressure Control in the Occurrence of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: a Population-Based Study of Linked Electronic Health Records' Read publication here #UCCResearch #PregnancyResearch

New Study Protocol by ICAT Fellow Dr Cathal O’Connor

By |2022-06-23T09:45:54+01:00June 23rd, 2022|

📣Check out this study protocol just out from Dr Cathal O'Connor ICAT fellow at the INFANT Research Centre University College Cork 💡In this paper Cathal assesses #sleep in infants with early-onset #atopicdermatitis by longitudinal evaluation Read publication here Wellcome Trust #atopicdermatitis #paediatric #dermatology #sleep #UCCResearch

Data Science Competition

By |2022-06-23T09:46:34+01:00June 22nd, 2022|

📣Test your machine learning skills & apply to real-world clinical data!   💡Data Science competition - Build an EEG grading classifier NOW OPEN: https://infantresearchcommunity.ucc.ie/   🧠Using open EEG dataset from newborn infants:   https://zenodo.org/record/6587973  

INFANT Spin-Out ‘CergenX’

By |2022-06-16T14:58:16+01:00June 16th, 2022|

INFANT Spin-Out CergenX is using recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the early detection of abnormal brain activity in babies at birth. Founded in 2021, Cergenx aims to improve brain health monitoring in newborns by developing algorithms for screening all babies at birth for abnormal brain activity. The technology will enable early intervention by [...]

INFANT Seminar Series

By |2022-06-14T11:35:54+01:00June 14th, 2022|

📣INFANT Seminar Series continues this Friday!   🗣Clinical Research Fellow Dr. Jurate Panaviene will present   💡Interim results of 50 infants enrolled in The NIOMI study: "Non-Invasive Lung Oxygen Monitoring in Term Infants’’. This clinical observational study is aiming to evaluate if a non-invasive GASMAS-based technology incorporated into Lung analyzer can detect oxygen and measure [...]

INFANT Researchers presenting at the Irish Association for Allergy & Immunology Meeting

By |2022-06-07T10:41:19+01:00June 7th, 2022|

📣INFANT Research Centre attended the Irish Association of Allergy and Immunology (IAAI) Annual Meeting in Mullingar 🗣Dr Bailey Crowley gave the presentation: 💡'Observational Study: Sublingual Immunotherapy Compliance In The Paediatric Population' 🗣Caoimhe Cronin gave the presentation: 💡 'Education in AAI administration and anaphylaxis management in the paediatric allergy clinic: What we have learned so far' 📣Dr. Juan Enrique [...]

Pregnancy Loss Research Group Win Research Group of the Year 2022

By |2022-06-07T10:01:21+01:00June 7th, 2022|

Last week the Pregnancy Loss Research Group at University College Cork and Cork University Maternity Hospital led by Prof Keelin O’Donoghue was awarded ‘Best Research Team of the year’ at the UCC Research awards. This multidisciplinary team  is made up of doctors, midwvies, nurses, administrative staff, social workers, chaplains, health services/population health/ social science researchers, [...]

Dr Khashan and Dr Woodworth visit Tanzania as part of the Kilimanjaro Ultra 2020 project

By |2022-06-03T14:26:04+01:00June 3rd, 2022|

Last month Dr Ali Khashan and Dr Simon Woodworth travelled to the Kilimanjaro Region of Northern Tanzania as part of the Kilimanjaro ULTRA 2020 project funded by COALESCE. The ULTRA app is currently being trialed across Kilimanjaro and was designed to improve health outcomes of mothers and babies by enabling health officials to accurately record [...]