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International Researchers Can Reach Their APEX in Cork

Posted: 29th January 2018 Author: Vi Doan

The SFI Research Centre APC Microbiome Ireland, based in University College Cork, has secured €1,416,000 in competitive funding from the European Union’s Marie Sklodowska-Curie programme, to bring 20 senior international researchers to Ireland, through a new post-doctoral fellowship programme, APEX. The new programme will further help cement Ireland’s international position as a leader in microbiome science. APEX […]

International Recognition for UCC Researchers

Posted: 12th January 2018 Author: Vi Doan

‘Seekers of Knowledge’ by artist Annette Hennessy Four University College Cork (UCC) scientists feature in the latest “Highly Cited Researchers” list. This annual list identifies scientists whose research publications, and the extent to which they have been cited by other scientists globally, place them among the top 1% most cited in their subject field. The […]

Oatmeal, Healthy Bugs And A Happy Heart

Posted: 14th September 2017 Author: Vi Doan

PC Microbiome Institute scientists have confirmed that gut microbes play a role in heart health. We also demonstrated that we should consume porridge regularly to get the benefits of oat beta glucan for heart and gut health! Our study, published in Microbiome, found that consumption of oat beta glucan not only lowered blood cholesterol in […]

New Study Highlights Need for a Weight Loss Surgery Strategy

Posted: 20th July 2017 Author: Vi Doan

Data from a recent study carried out by the ESPRIT (Evidence to Support Prevention, Implementation and Translation) research group led by Professor Patricia Kearney at the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College Cork (UCC), estimate that current weight loss surgery (bariatric surgery) provision in Ireland meets less than 0.1% of the need. Bariatric […]

UCC: Food and nutritional research improves cancer survival rates

Posted: 12th July 2017 Author: Vi Doan

Up to 80% of cancer patients unintentionally lose weight which can have a devastating impact on their quality of life according to Dr Aoife Ryan, dietitian and lecturer in Nutritional Sciences at UCC. The weight loss reduces their ability to tolerate chemotherapy and leading to poor survival rates. The seriousness of this issue is […]

The ASSERT Centre Together with Foundation Partner Mentice Introduce a State-of-the-Art Training Solution for Stroke

Posted: 6th July 2017 Author: Vi Doan

International Faculty and course attendees at the Mechanical Thrombectomy for Acute Stroke training program held at the ASSERT Centre today. The program provides a close to reality replica of the environment experienced by physicians when performing the procedure. The program was held in conjunction with our foundation partner Mentice and is kindly sponsored by Stryker […]

Single injection ‘could repair damaged hearts’ after world-first trial

Posted: 29th April 2017 Author: Vi Doan

A UCC professor has shown in a trial, the first of its kind in the world, that low dose insulin-like growth factor, injected into the heart to repair damage to the muscle, improves remodelling for heart attack patients. Professor Noel Caplice, Chair of Cardiovascular Sciences at UCC, and his cardiologist colleagues at Cork University Hospital […]

Next stop, Nobel Laureate Meeting, for UCC researcher

Posted: 2nd March 2017 Author: Vi Doan

Dr David McNulty, a postdoctoral researcher at UCC, is one of just three people from Ireland selected to participate in the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau in June. Dr McNulty, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Dr Colm O’Dwyer’s Applied Nanoscience Group in UCC’s Department of Chemistry, described being one of only 400 young scientists from 76 […]

UCC researcher honoured for brain seizure predictions

Posted: 16th February 2017 Author: Vi Doan

A UCC researcher has won a prestigious international competition for his work in predicting seizures in the human brain through long-term EEG recordings. Dr Andriy Temko, a research fellow at the INFANT centre, was named as winner of the Kaggle challenge, and a $10,000 first prize. Together with data scientists from Ornon, France; Curitiba, Brazil; and […]

‘UCC’s the best thing that’s happened to me’

Posted: 25th January 2017 Author: Vi Doan

When I arrived in Ireland last September, alone on my first trip to Europe, I was reminded of how, as a young Muslim girl growing up in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India, I was always discouraged from travelling alone. Using public transport was prohibited because it would have exposed me to public gaze […]

UCC scores gold at synthetic biology competition

Posted: 21st December 2016 Author: Vi Doan

UCC’s Limited Lactis team was awarded a gold medal recently at the iGEM (international Genetically Engineered Machine) competition in Boston. More than 600 teams from top universities across the globe, including MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge and Oxford took part in the competition, which is held up as the gold standard for ‘research-led education’. The Cork […]

UCD graduate elected first female President of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Posted: 16th December 2016 Author: Vi Doan

Infectious disease specialist Professor Mary Horgan has been elected President Designate of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). She will be the first woman to hold the post in the college’s 360-year history. “Ireland is recognised globally for the high quality of its medical graduates and trainees,” said Professor Horgan on her […]