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INFANT PhD Profile: Caroline O’Connor’s work to improve and standardize the care of twin pregnancies

By |2022-07-13T13:42:08+01:00July 13th, 2022|

Caroline O'Connor is pursuing a PhD in the area of improving and standardising the care of twin pregnancies with INFANT and NPEC at UCC and is funded by the Irish research council. Caroline completed her BSc Midwifery in the UCC in 2010. After graduating she travelled to Essex in the UK where she worked as [...]

INFANT team members WIN at Ideate Ireland Competition

By |2022-07-05T12:34:05+01:00July 5th, 2022|

INFANT Lead Investigator Dr Mark O'Sullivan and Dr Alison O'Shea of the Neurobell project are the overall winners of the 2022 Ideate Ireland competition which took place last week. The  €15,000 top prize was awarded to Neurobell a pocket-sized brain monitor with automated seizure detection for newborns, which builds on the previous research of the INFANT Research [...]

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 [...]