Cork-based researchers have been awarded €570,000 towards developing a brain monitoring system designed to help detect the severity of brain damage in babies injured at birth.

A computer programme that can detect seizures in newborns has been developed by researchers at the Infant perinatal research centre in Cork.

The Jameson Experience in east Cork and the team behind UCC’s year-long George Boole celebrations were among those honoured last night for helping to generate more than €10m in conference and tourism business in Cork this year.

The man responsible for the development of “brain cooling”, the first technique to reduce brain injury in newborns deprived of oxygen at birth, is among a range of international speakers who will address a conference on newborn brain monitoring that gets under way in Cork today.

Computer giant IBM is working with University College Cork and Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) to help improve the long-term outcomes for babies in intensive care.

A lunchtime lecture series featuring some of the country’s top female IT brains will take place in Cork in the hope it will encourage more women into technology, science, and engineering.

Some successful EU-funded Irish female scientists:

A TEAM of Irish researchers has developed a technology for investigating brain injury and seizures in newborn babies.

AN Irish academic who was instrumental in developing methods for more accurate detection of seizures in newborns is to co-lead a major international project to develop new drug treatments for these babies.