Infant

INFANT is Ireland’s first perinatal research centre. Funded by Science Foundation Ireland and based at Cork University Maternity Hospital, INFANT is developing solutions to address the unmet worldwide clinical need for effective screening tests for the most common complications of pregnancy and the most significant problems for newborn babies. Almost 1 in 5 pregnancies are complicated either by pre-eclampsia, spontaneous pre-term birth or fetal growth restriction. In half of the affected cases, the disease is so severe that serious maternal or perinatal morbidity or mortality can result. For the fetus, it is recognised that the short journey down the birth canal is one of the most dangerous. One in twenty newborns experience asphyxia at birth and may go on to develop brain injury and seizures.

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