UCC biobank to help improve health of mothers and babies

A new biobank at University College Cork will play a leading role in improving future health outcomes for mothers and babies.

It will help centres such as Infant (The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translation Research), based in UCC; and Cork University Maternity Hospital to biobank human biological samples and data.

Infant is involved in a wide range of studies into conditions such as pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth, and foetal growth restriction.