Committee Members 

Terms of Reference 

UCC College of Medicine and Health Research and Innovation Committee Terms of Reference are available to read.

Please click on CoMH Research & Innovation Committee - Terms of Reference

Committe Meeting Dates 2024

Please note that meeting locations are yet to be confirmed.

Friday 26^th January  

Friday 1^st March 

Friday 5^th April 

Friday 3^rd May 

Friday 7^th June 

Friday 5^th July 

Friday 2^nd August 

Friday 6^th September 

Friday 4^th October 

Friday 1^st November 

Friday 13^th December 

These dates are subject to change.

Please submit documents to the Research Committee (to comh@ucc.ie ) for review 10 working days in advance of a meeting. Documents submitted for review after this timeline may be deferred until the next available meeting. 

Past CoMH Research Conferences

CoMH Futures Research Conference 2023

A new era of Academic Health Sciences System Partnership for Global Health and Disease

Our CoMH Futures Research Conference took place on Thursday 21st September 2023 in Devere Hall, UCC.

The theme of the conference this year was ‘Futures’ to reflect the recent launch of UCC Futures, an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation that is a core part of UCC’s new strategic plan. 

The CoMH Futures Research Conference showcased the diverse range of fundamental, translational and clinical research in CoMH that is central to UCC Futures and to the Academic Health Sciences System Partnership in the South/South West region. 

The conference explored research from key areas including Future Medicines, Future Ageing and Brain Sciences, Children, Food, Microbiome and Health.

We welcomed researchers from all career stages to showcase and present their work, make new connections and explore new opportunities for collaboration.

The event recognised outstanding UCC research outputs and highlighted world-class research and innovation taking place at UCC with partners across the community, industry and the health system.

The conference also showcased the research performed by undergraduate and postgraduate students and included oral presentations featuring ten minute ‘Latest Advances’ and three minute ‘Elevator Pitches’.

Professor Helen Whelton, Head of College of Medicine and Health UCC said: “Today’s futures research conference reflects the vision of UCC Futures to inspire, engage and enable our researchers to create the future. It shows how our research is and will transform our approaches to health and healthcare as part of the UCC Futures framework. We work with exceptional researchers. Their pioneering work, their ideas, their innovative proposals transform their research into impact that helps transform human lives, advances economic development and addresses global grand challenges in health and disease. The work we see here today is central also to the development of the Academic Health Sciences System  (AHSS) in the South/South West region, which is a fully coordinated partnership between University College Cork and partners in the healthcare system. AHSS will ensure that advances in research and innovation are translated into direct benefits for patients. The work presented today is core to that ambition. It is inspiring to see this work and how it addresses emerging societal needs and global grand health challenges to secure a better future for us all”.

2022 CoMH Research Conference "from Molecules to People" 

The inaugural CoMH Research Conference, "from Molecules to People", took take place on 22nd September 2022 in the Devere Hall, UCC. This highly successful Conference showcased the diverse range of basic, translational and people centric research across the College of Medicine and Health.