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Supplement Award
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 31st 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 Friday 2nd June 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 | ||
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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? |