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Medical Research Supplement Award

The School of Medicine Medical Supplement award 2022.2023 is now open for applications.

UCC School of Medicine (SoM) supports active research participation by undergraduate students in the medical school. It offers students the opportunity to participate in exciting projects, mentored by and working side-by-side with UCC-based research scientists and clinicians at the forefront of research frontiers in medicine.

The purpose of the medical research supplement award is consistent with these aims, enabling Principal Investigators to apply for funding for research consumables for a project involving one or more students registered in an undergraduate degree programme of the SoM.

All UCC-based academic staff and UCC-affiliated clinicians are eligible to apply. The applications and awards will be processed by the School of Medicine Research and Postgraduate Affairs Committee. The awards will be made to support ongoing or planned projects involving undergraduate students currently studying within the SoM, and will have a maximum value of €500, which will be made available through the SoM budget. Successful applicants will be notified within four weeks of the closing date.

All purchases through the Supplemental award are to be processed by the awardee through Agresso. All funds must be utilised before 1st September 2023, with any invoices relating to such funds to reach the Finance Office in UCC no later than 31^st August 2023.

Please forward a completed application form and a copy of the ethical approval letter or evidence of application for ethical approval for the project to rpac@ucc.ie and include Medical Research Supplement Award in the subject line. Please note the deadline for applications is Monday 3^rd April 2023. Applications received after this date will not be accepted for this round of the Medical Research Supplement award.

Please note that funding will not be awarded to successful applicants until a copy of the ethical approval letter for the project has been submitted to the Medical School.

Supplemental Award applicants should appraise themselves of the application timeframes and associated approval timeframes for those projects that require CREC approval https://www.ucc.ie/en/crec/. RPAC advises applicants to contact CREC before advancing their application to appraise themselves of the most up to date situation regarding approval of applications.

Any queries should be sent to rpac@ucc.ie

Medical Supplement award guidelines and application form 2023

Medical Supplement Award recipients 2022

Supervisor		Student Name		Research Title
Dr Irina	Korotchikova	Mark	Feighery	Leukotriene Modifying Agents and Neuropsychiatric Events in Clinical Paediatric Practice: Prevalance, Physician Awareness and Pharmacovigilance within the Primary Care Setting
Dr Juan	Trujillo	Yukta	Ramesh	An evaluation of the impact of dietetics involvement in the management of the egg ladder for IgE-mediated egg allergy patients in 2019 and 2021.
Dr Eileen	Duggan	Rachel	Ree	Challenges of diagnosing skin conditions in patients with darkly pigmented skin in Primary Care.

Medical Research Supplement Award 2019

Principle Investigator	Student	Project Title
Dr.Órla Barry	Kiran Parambil	HDAC modulating compounds as potential therapeutic agents for treatment of p38δ MAPK-negative oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Dr. Dominic Hegarty	Saleem Kamalodeen	Opioid prescription among Irish healthcare providers
Dr.Yvonne Nolan	Robert Shannon	The role of the nuclear receptor TLX in hippocampal neuropathophysiology related to ageing and Alzheimer's disease
Dr.John MacSharry	Huseyin Tolga Hatay	Intermittent fasting and it impact on blood sugar, ketone production and weight control in Healthy adults
Dr. Mark G Rae	Claire Meredith Denley	Is neuronal store-operated calcium entry affected in Duchenne muscular dystrophy?
Dr. Adrian Murphy	Tessa Kathleen Daly	Parental adminsitration of analgesia to children attending the emergency department with acutely painful conditions
Dr. Collette Hand; Professor Aisling Ryan	Natalie Krakoski	Characterisation of clinical and genetic features in members of a periodic paralysis family with a novel CACNA1S gene mutation.

Medical Supplement Award 2018

Applicant & Principal Investigator	Student (s)	Project Title
Dr. Gabriella Rizzo and Dr. Liam Fanning, School of Medicine, UCC	Dara Mae O'Keefe, Siti Amanina Azman, Liam Ryan, Kei Yen Chan, David Egong, and Eimear Hennessy	A study in immuno-virology techniques and application of genotype identification in the diagnosis of chronic Hepatitis B infection.
Dr. Colm O'Tuathaigh, School of Medicine, UCC	Natasha Lepore	Physician knowledge and perception of technology use and screen time in children.
Professor Barry O'Reilly, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CUMH	Leah Falvey	What does your pelvic floor do for you?: Knowledge of the pelvic floor in female University students.
Dr. Mohammed Abdulla, Department of Physiology, UCC	Jeremy Cavers	The effects of TRPV1 receptor blockade on the renal functional response to volume expansion in chronic intermittent hypoxia rat model.
Dr. Sara McDevitt, Department of Psychiatry, UCC	Rachel Finn	A study of body dissatisfaction, an established risk factor for eating disorders, amongst UCC students.
Dr. Louise Gibson, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, UCC	Fatin Amirah Binti Muhamad Sophian	Mobile screen media: Its impact on early childhood communication development.
Dr. Seamus O'Reilly, Department of Radiotherapy, CUH and Department of Medicine UCC	Maria O'Sullivan	Investigation into the unmet psychological needs of patients with cancer and the uptake of cancer support services within the Munster region.

Medical Supplement Award 2017

Applicant & Principal Investigator	Student	Project Title
Dr Simon Cronin, Consultant Neurologist, Cork Neuro Science CNS Centre	Kim O'Brien	Incidence of Subsequent Stroke in Patients attending the TIA clinic in CUH
Dr Michelle Murphy, Consultant Dermatologist, SIVUH, Cork	Yvonne Kiernan	The effects of Dermatological and Rheumatological conditions and their associated medications on Oral Health
Dr Tony Foley, Lecturer, General Practice, School of Medicine, UCC	Roseanne Tobin	How to improve waiting times in GP surgeries – a survey of GPs
Prof David Kerins, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, UCC	Cara Pray	Prevalence of Bendopnea in Patients with Systolic Heart Failure
Prof Louise Kenny, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, CUMH	Eoin Roche	Analysis of comparable home/clinic blood pressure readings in the LEANBH population
Dr Colm O'Tuathaigh, Lecturer, Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine, UCC	Nor Faizaah Ahman Kamal	Empathy and Perspective Taking among Medical Students: A correlational Analysis
Dr Antoinette Tuthill, Consultant Endocrinologist, CUH	Sarah Kelleher	Investigating Predictive Factors in the First Trimester of Pregnancy for the later Development of Gestational Diabetes
Dr Gerard O'Keeffe, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, UCC	Leah D'Souza	Bridging the Gap: Transforming Radiographic Medical Education to Improve Quality of Care

Medical Supplement Award 2016

Applicant & Principal Investigator	Student	Project Title
Dr Deirdre Bennett, Head Medical Education Unit	Philip Macilwraith	Burnout, physical activity and extracurricular activity in medical students
Dr. Bridget Maher, Senior Lecturer Medical Education Unit	Gerard Finn	IODES Study - Determination of Iodine Status in a Pregnant Population in the South of Ireland
Dr Dominic Hegarty, Consultant, Anaesthesia and Pain Management	Gregory Campbell	A randomized control trial of music on anxiety in chronic pain patients undergoing day-case procedures.
Professor Colin Bradley, Head Department of General Practice	Jake Murphy	Evaluation of the Diabetes Nurse Specialist Service in General Practice
Dr John Kelly, Lecturer in Clinical Psychiatry	James O Flynn	Examining Stress - an investigation of the interaction between th eHypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis, Stress, Mood and Exercise in Students.
Dr. Sean O’Sullivan MB, Bch, BAO, BMedSci, MRCPI, PhD. Consultant Neurologist and Clinical Senior Lecturer in Neurology	Meagan Guay	A study of Perceptual Decision Making deficits in individuals with Impulse Control Disorders compared to healthy controls.
Professor Mary Horan, Dean of the School of Medicine, UCC	Zara Fullerton, Sarah O Sullivan	Made to Move: To develop, implement and evalute components of a bespoke community physical activity and wellbeing programme designed to increase physical activity levels and improve the quality of nutritional intake in the population and as a consequence improve the well-being of the population
Dr Kieran Doran, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Ethics, UCC	Shane Kelly	Non-Directional Counselling, Terminations of Pregnancy and GP services for Women with Crisis Pregnancies - Opinions and Experiences of General Practitioners in Munster
Prof D.W. Molloy, Professor of Geriatric Medicine	Kenneth O Riordan	Correlation between Intensity of treatment choice in Advance Care Directive and quality of life, disability, symptom severity, mood/depression, pain and social interactions/support.
Dr Michelle Murphy – Consultant Dermatologist	Yvonne Kiernan	Effects of Dermatological and Rheumatological conditions and their associated medications on Oral Health
Dr Mark Tangney	Aoife O Brien-Horgan, James Meeke	Probiotic Bacteria in Cancer Medicine
Professor Barry Plant, Director Cork Adult CF Centre, Cork University Hospital	Andrew Collins	The impact of CFTR modulation on pseudomonas aeruginosa status as reflected by anti-pseudomonas antibody tires in a cohort of patients with CF with the G551D mutation.
Dr Colm O Tuathaigh, Medical Education Unit, UCC	Shane Singh, Danielle O Connor, Geoff Blackbyrne	Examination of Attentional and Emotional Salience Processing in Regular Cannabis Users vs. Non-User Controls
Dr Kellie Dean, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology	Atikah Fatholrazak	SMAUG1 silencing foci in hippocampal neurons: are they relevant in Alzheimer's disease?