On Thursday, 28th November, INFANT team members attended the Cork Convention Bureau Conference Ambassador Awards 2024 , a fantastic event celebrating individuals who have made a significant impact by bringing international conferences to Cork. These ambassadors play a vital role in driving business tourism and enhancing Cork's reputation as a leading European destination for big [...]
On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we caught up with INFANT collaborator, Professor Cally Tann and the Baby BRAiN research team to learn about their work to improve outcomes for children and families affected by newborn brain injury. Newborn brain injury, caused by oxygen deprivation around the time of birth (birth asphyxia), is one [...]
CergenX has been awarded the prestigious Irish Times Innovation Award in the Life Sciences & Healthcare category, sponsored by Research Ireland. This award celebrates their innovation in neonatal brain health, particularly with their new, easy-to-use brain-monitoring technology called Wave. The Wave device helps identify newborns in need of extra support or treatment, with the aim [...]
Dr Cathal O'Connor won the Dermatology Research Award at the all-island Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland Research Awards, held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Cathal's publication 'Early emollient bathing is associated with subsequent atopic dermatitis in an unselected birth cohort study' was published in the leading journal EAACI PAI Journal - [...]
INFANT Clinical Research Fellow Dr Aoife Gallagher won the Sir Henry Marsh medal. The Sir Henry Marsh medal award is an annual award given by the Faculty of Paediatrics to the lead author of the best paper by a Paediatric Trainee on the topic of child health or the delivery of child healthcare in Ireland [...]
On World Cerebral Palsy Day, October 6th, 2023, University College Cork (UCC) proudly announced the appointment of Professor Deirdre Murray as the Cerebral Palsy Foundation Chair in Early Brain Injury and Cerebral Palsy, marking the start of a transformative programme aimed at revolutionising cerebral palsy care in Ireland. A UCC alumna, Professor Murray graduated in [...]
A software engineering student at University of Limerick is working on a project that could help to revolutionise the early detection of cerebral palsy. Aaron Roche, a 20-year-old student on the Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) programme at UL, is working on the ELEVATE project, which is a ground-breaking five-year research programme that aims to improve [...]
