The Tánaiste, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Defence, Micheál Martin TD, today launched a new €11.6 million research programme focused on Cerebral Palsy at University College Cork (UCC).

• UCC study assessed the potential of care co-operatives in Ireland.
• The care co-operative model provides an alternative option to supporting older people to age well at home.
• In Ireland, most older people prefer to remain in their own homes, or, at least, in their own communities rather than in institutional settings, as they age.
• Study recommends the development of state-supported pilot actions to trial the development of care co-operatives.

• UCC Journal recognised for its original and impactful contribution to film and screen media by the Irish Open Access Publishers.

• Four UCC researchers receiving a combined €890,000 funding in the Marie Skłodowska -Curie Actions (MCSA) Postdoctoral Fellowship awards 2023.
• Dr Lorena Morales García to investigate the changes in brain development due to altered early life microbiota in newborns who have undergone a C-section birth.

• Drug commonly used to treat HER2-positive breast cancer sees tumour shrinkage in several other cancer types.
• Cancer treatment combination may have more uses than previously thought.

Lockdowns imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on the gut microbiome development of babies born during these periods according to new research from APC Microbiome Ireland (APC), a world leading SFI Research Centre, based in University College Cork, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Children’s Health Ireland.

• Review finds no increase in suicide rate during the Covid-19 pandemic.
• A range of factors during the pandemic served as protective effects to the risk of suicide.
• Study also highlights the need for high-quality and timely data on suicide deaths worldwide.

• Female led project brings together experts from APC Microbiome Ireland a world leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), The Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin, University of Exeter and University of Bristol.