• 15pc increase in detection of preterm preeclampsia by using a new diagnostic method.
• UCC spin-out Metabolomic Diagnostics hope their new test can increase detection rates and save lives.
• Difficult to predict, preeclampsia causes more than 70,000 maternal deaths and 500,000 foetal deaths every year.

• UCC, NSRF and INFANT researchers awarded a combined €1.9 million funding in Health Research Board Postdoctoral Fellowship schemes.
• Funding will support the career development of outstanding researchers at UCC in health and social care research projects.

On Thursday 28^th September and Thursday 5^th October, researchers, students, clinicians and members of the public from varied backgrounds will come together in UCC to develop solutions to a number of problems and needs within women's health.

UCC Spin-out Company ProVascTec has been accepted into the global startup program Creative Destruction Lab (CDL). Organised by the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, CDL is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based programme for massively scalable, seed-stage, science and technology-based companies.

• New study finds that limited attention is given to children’s right to play in Irish schoolyards.
• Teachers report challenges in supporting play, including limited policy and litigation fears.
• Every day half a million children share schoolyards in over 3000 schools across Ireland.

• Scale-Up4Rehab project to develop Netflix-style platform to offer virtual rehabilitation to patients.
• Multi-disciplinary collaboration awarded €10.8 million Interreg North-West Europe funding.
• UCC Physiotherapy students to benefit from innovative digital rehabilitation training.

Cork University Business School (CUBS) in collaboration with UCC Innovation are launching a new University Wide (UW) entrepreneurship module for all students from ALL disciplines (excluding first year students).

Home energy usage and road transport emissions are responsible for two-thirds of greenhouse gasses being generated in Cork City, according to important new UCC research commissioned by Cork City Council’s Climate Action Unit.

• Step Up project aims to improve the health, wellbeing and cognitive performance of middle-aged and older people.
• SC-Protein project to develop a system that turns food waste into protein for animal feed.
• Two UCC hosted projects awarded almost €500,000 through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) National Challenge Fund.

• Applications open for 11 new academic positions at UCC and Tyndall National Institute.
• Closing date for applications is 12pm (Irish Standard Time) on Tuesday 5^th December 2023.