Tagged: University College Cork & News
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Screening the marine for new chemistry News
17.05.2013 Dr Margaret Rae and colleagues on the Beaufort Marine Biodiscovery Project are looking to the sea in the hunt for clinically useful molecules. She tells Claire O'Connell about... -
Tech start-up of the week: Portable Medical Technology News
31.03.2013 This week’s tech start-up of the week is Portable Medical Technology Ltd, a company that develops accredited and trusted apps for medical specialists to reduce medical errors,... -
Irish-owned company to develop global centre of excellence for ship dismantling News
25.03.2013 Irish-owned CEMS-Dalian Industry Company (CEMS-D) will develop an environmentally safe centre for ship dismantling and recycling in one of the busiest ports in the world. -
Cot-side technology working to detect seizures in infants News
22.03.2013 A new international trial led by University College Cork (UCC) will evaluate cot-side technology to monitor brain seizures in high-risk newborns. Claire O’Connell caught up with... -
UCC researchers in €1.6m EU project to develop low-powered chips News
09.01.2013 Researchers from University College Cork (UCC) are involved in a consortium that has been awarded €1.6m under the EU’s FP7 programme to develop new low-powered and... -
Pan-European project to revolutionise broadband delivery gets €8.1m in funding News
09.01.2013 A pan-European telecoms project aimed at transforming how broadband is delivered using fibre optics has been awarded €8.1m in EU funding. The project involves research groups at... -
MitaMed - ‘zapping’ tumours to improve drug uptake News
24.12.2012 Bringing a medical technology from idea to clinic is not without its challenges. But Dr Declan Soden of the Cork Cancer Research Centre, and founder of Cork-based MitaMed, is... -
Anaesthetist develops ‘smarter epidural’ to win clinical innovation award News
17.12.2012 Dr Peter Lee, a consultant anaesthetist with Cork University Hospital, has won a clinical innovation award after developing a solution to improve the delivery of epidurals. Lee... -
UCC-led researchers secure €6m in FP7 funding to carry out pre-eclampsia testing News
05.11.2012 Under its FP7 research programme, the European Union has awarded €6m in funding to a consortium led by researchers at University College Cork (UCC) that’s working on bringing a... -
UCC aiming to achieve energy efficiencies under SEAI agreement News
25.10.2012 University College Cork (UCC) has signed an agreement with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) under its Public Sector Energy Partnership programme, with the aim... -
Health Innovation Hub launches to help healthcare companies create solutions faster News
19.10.2012 A new healthcare project has launched in Cork today to bring together six healthcare companies with the health system and academia in order to help such companies move faster on... -
Cork start-up Keelvar Systems raises €750k in funding round News
11.10.2012 Keelvar Systems, a spin-out from University College Cork that has developed auction technology for governments and multinationals carrying out procurement for tenders, has... -
Global business expert Hanadi Jabado to talk entrepreneurship at UCC and QUB News
10.10.2012 All businesses, be they start-ups or established firms, need to keep thinking like entrepreneurs and continue to innovate – that’s according to Hanadi Jabado, the serial... -
Four Irish universities listed among top 200 universities in the world News
11.09.2012 Four Irish universities have been listed among the world’s top 200, according to the QS University Rankings. These include: Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin,... -
UCC to award 10 scholarships for new MA in Digital Arts and Humanities News
24.08.2012 University College Cork will award 10 scholarships to graduate students for its new MA in Digital Arts and Humanities, an interdisciplinary programme using new methods in... -
University College Cork builds cloud incubator for SMBs with Dell and VMware News
28.06.2012 Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) may find an easier route to cloud computing via a new cloud incubator designed to avoid large upfront costs and complexities that can... -
First signs of Ireland’s digital divide emerge as Apple and Amazon jobs arrive News
06.06.2012 The first indication of a looming urban-rural digital divide in Ireland has arrived in the form of job opportunities from Apple and Amazon that unfortunately disqualify people... -
Canadian investors lead funding round in InfiniLED; eight jobs on way News
16.05.2012 InfiniLED, a LED-tech spin-out from Tyndall National Institute in Cork, has closed a first-round investment, which may reach €1.6m. IL Investment Group from Quebec in Canada led... -
Science event to explore future of silicon microneedle tech News
14.05.2012 The future of low-cost, painless drug and vaccine delivery is the topic of discussion this week at Tyndall National Institute in Cork, where up to 180 clinicians, scientists and... -
Electric Ireland and Abtran to partner in outsourcing contract News
12.04.2012 Cork-based Irish business process outsourcing company Abtran has won a tendering process with Electric Ireland to extend its contract with the energy utility for another five...