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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 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, [...]

UCC to Lead Research on COVID-19 Infection and Vaccine Uptake During Pregnancy

By |2022-05-16T14:25:24+01:00May 16th, 2022|

UCC to Lead Research on COVID-19 Infection and Vaccine Uptake During Pregnancy University College Cork (UCC) and Ulster University (UU) researchers have been awarded €200,000 from the Irish government as part of the North-South “Shared Island” research funding programme to conduct research on COVID-19 infection and vaccine uptake in pregnancy, and the effects of infection [...]

INFANT Seminar Series

By |2022-05-10T08:34:50+01:00May 10th, 2022|

📣Dr Yvonne D'Art will present 'Single dose challenges in the diagnosis and management of cow’s milk allergy in infants' at the INFANT seminar 📅 Friday May 13th at 12pm 💡Cow’s milk protein allergy (CMPA) is one of the most common food allergies in infancy. Single dose challenges are a new method of assessing dose reactivity [...]