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Musgrave partners with UCC to support allergen education and research

By |2022-09-02T14:27:44+01:00September 2nd, 2022|

PRESS RELEASE Musgrave, Ireland’s leading food retailer, wholesaler and foodservice company, has collaborated with University College Cork (UCC) to advance allergy education and research. New funding will provide grants to students on the new Allergy and Clinical Immunology Postgraduate Programme at UCC Sponsorship will also fund essential studies into anaphylaxis management In keeping with the [...]

PhD Profile: Jacopo Proietti

By |2022-08-30T11:32:05+01:00August 30th, 2022|

Jacopo is a Child Neuropsychiatrist trained in pediatric neurological disorders, with particular interest in electrophysiological evaluation of epilepsy with onset in childhood and adolescence. In the last two years he shifted his attention to neonatal neurology. His PhD is focusing on: Simultaneous multichannel EEG and median nerve SEPs recording during the earliest hours after birth in infants with Neonatal [...]

Dr Marita Hennessy given Herman Schaalma Award for best PhD!!

By |2022-08-24T09:16:18+01:00August 24th, 2022|

Congratulations to post-doctoral Researcher Marita Hennessy for this European Health Psychology Society Herman Schaalma Award for her Health research Board SPHeREprogramme  PhD in 2020!! Marita is a postdoctoral researcher with the Pregnancy Loss Group at INFANT. Prior to joining INFANT in January 2020, Marita was a Health Research Board-funded SPHeRE PhD Scholar within the Health Behaviour [...]

NeuroBell announced as finalist in Healthy Mom & Baby Innovation Competition!!

By |2022-08-22T12:19:12+01:00August 22nd, 2022|

A big congratulations to INFANT Lead Investigator Mark O 'Sullivan on his recent success in qualifying as a finalist at the Parkview Health and MATTER 2022 Healthy Mom and Baby 3.0 Innovation Competition with the Neurobell project. Neurobell is an Enterprise Ireland-funded commercialization project and team from the INFANT Research Centre at University College Cork. Neurobell [...]

Dr Cathal O’Connor – Future Leader in Paediatric Dermatology

By |2022-08-17T08:56:18+01:00August 17th, 2022|

PhD student & ICAT Programme fellow Dr Cathal O’Connor has been selected by the executive board of the European Society of Paediatric Dermatology as a Future Leader in Paediatric Dermatology. He was presented with his certificate by ESPD president, Prof Veronica Kinsler, at the recent annual ESPD meeting in Munich, Germany. What is the Future [...]

PhD Profile: Dr Cathal O’Connor’s work to investigate the impact of eczema on babies’ sleep

By |2022-08-08T15:59:13+01:00August 8th, 2022|

Cathal O’Connor is a PhD fellow with the prestigious Irish Clinical and Academic Training (ICAT) programme and is a Specialist Registrar in Dermatology with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), dual training in general paediatrics. He graduated from University College Cork in 2013 and undertook Basic Specialist Training with RCPI in both Paediatrics [...]

Machine Learning Competition!! €2000 PRIZE!!

By |2022-08-04T10:55:28+01:00August 4th, 2022|

📢Machine Learning Competition!!   🎉€2000 PRIZE!!!   🔎Apply Now!!: https://infantresearchcommunity.ucc.ie   #COSTprogramme #wellcometrust #Ai4Nicu #UCCResearch University College Cork Alumni and Development #DataScience #MachineLearning