Medical research at UCC wins US award

Ground-breaking work on pre-eclampsia, a life-threatening complication of late pregnancy, has earned experts at the Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (Infant), based at UCC and Cork University Maternity Hospital, an award from the American Heart Association.

The international award is a first for Irish researchers and for pregnancy research. The study has been announced as top paper for 2014 in the category of clinical science in Hypertension, the journal of the American Heart Association.

The research, ‘Screening for Pregnancy Endpoints’, or Scope, is led in Ireland by Louise Kenny, professor of obstetrics at University College Cork, director of Infant, and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Cork University Maternity Hospital.