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PiNPoINT Study Launched

By |2020-11-22T12:57:25+00:00April 10th, 2017|

Monday 10 April 2017 Partnership Announced Between INFANT & Global Partners to Explore Optimal Nutrition for Premature Infants   PiNPoINT Investigator team – L-R: Dr Elaine McCarthy, postdoctoral researcher, Dr Brendan Murphy, Consultant Neonatologist, CUMH, Teresa Berkery, Project Manager, Stephen Lane, Software Developer, Aileen Regan, Danone Nutricia, Ana-O’Reilly Marshall, Neonatal Research Dietician, Prof Mairead Kiely, [...]

What if we could listen to the brains of newborn babies?

By |2020-11-22T12:57:52+00:00April 6th, 2017|

Thursday 06 April 2017 William Hutch is a medical researcher from University College Cork. He has a PhD in neuroscience and is involved in the neonatal brain research group at INFANT. In his TEDxUCC talk, he reveals for the first time the undiscovered phenomenon of how we can now look at and listen to the [...]

Lifelong Learning Festival

By |2020-11-22T12:58:28+00:00March 31st, 2017|

Friday 31 March 2017   Cork’s Lifelong Learning Festival promotes and celebrates learning of all kinds, whatever your age, interest or ability.   Dr Simon Woodworth, will give a talk on his work as Lead Investigator in the LEANBH project at Blackrock Castle Observatory, in Blackrock, Cork at 20:00 on Friday 7 April.   Learning to [...]

ENRICH Project Launched

By |2020-11-22T12:58:43+00:00March 30th, 2017|

Thursday 30 March 2017 Groundbreaking Collaboration We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation to explore the effects of sleep on baby brain development. INFANT, a world leading Science Foundation Ireland funded research Centre at University College Cork (UCC) and Cork University Maternity Hospital, announced today that it will collaborate with [...]

Teddy Bear Hospital

By |2020-11-22T12:58:56+00:00March 22nd, 2017|

Wednesday 22 March 2017 "If You Go into the Wards Today ..." This week, children from three local schools in Cork brought their teddy bears to CUH's new outpatient paediatric department. These junior doctors were giving their cuddly patients a check up at our Teddy Bear Hospital. Organised by Cork University Hospital, the INFANT Centre and UCC's Medical Society, [...]

Learning From Bereaved Parents: Communication and Challenges Faced

By |2020-11-22T12:59:41+00:00February 27th, 2017|

Monday 27 February 2017 Three new studies from the Pregnancy Loss Research Group have been published surrounding the impact of stillbirth and intrapartum death.   Led by our PI, Dr Keelin O'Donoghue, the research explores the impact on parents and on healthcare professionals with recommendations for how to improve care. The death of a baby through stillbirth [...]

The International Stillbirth Alliance Annual Conference 2017

By |2020-11-22T12:59:09+00:00February 27th, 2017|

Monday 27 February 2017 Information The Conference will take place over two days, Saturday and Sunday, with a mixture of plenary and concurrent sessions from invited speakers and selected presentations from conference abstracts. Pre-conference workshops will be held on Friday 22nd of September followed by the ISA Official Opening Ceremony & Welcome Reception. Key Dates [...]

INFANT Researcher Wins Prestigious International Prize

By |2020-11-22T13:00:11+00:00February 21st, 2017|

Friday 10 February 2017 Dr Andrey Temko, INFANT researcher, has won a prestigious international competition for his work in predicting seizures in the human brain through long-term EEG recordings. Highest Accuracy Together with data scientists from Ornon, France; Curitiba, Brazil; and Minneapolis, US, Dr Temko developed an artificial intelligence solution that showed the highest accuracy among nearly 500 competing teams from [...]

New Research: High Levels of Vitamin D Deficiency in Newborn Babies

By |2020-11-22T12:59:57+00:00February 21st, 2017|

Tuesday 21 February 2017 INFANT researchers show that 46% of newborn babies have vitamin D deficiency Deficiency and Recommendations INFANT Centre researchers, in collaboration with the Cork Centre for Vitamin D and Nutrition Research, have reported a high prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency amongst newborn babies. A newborn baby's Vitamin D status at birth is [...]