PResident's RePORt 2009/2010 - University College Cork

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Foreword UCC at a Glance Academic Developments Teaching and Learning Research College Reports: Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Business and Law Medicine and Health Science, Engineering and Food Science Events Student Experience Sports and Recreation Buildings and Estates Cork University Press Finance Governing Body IRIS Appendix 40 • The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health have secured funding worth €300,000 from the Crumlin Children’s Research Centre for a study on ‘Childhood Obesity in Ireland: recent trends and determinants at the individual and ecological level’. The project will commence in April 2011. • The Department of Epidemiology and Public Health have also secured funding worth €250,000 from Safefood for research on ‘The Cost of Overweight and Obesity on the Island of Ireland’. This project will commence in January 2011. • Dr John Cryan, Professor Ted Dinan and their colleagues have unravelled a novel mechanism underlying how early-life stress can alter the levels of a specific protein involved in controlling the amount of chemical glutamate which transmits nerve impulses in the spinal cord. If there is too much glutamate pain signals can occur. Decreased levels of the glutamate transporter, which normally mops up excess glutamate, results in an increased level of glutamate which contributes to the increased experience of abdominal pain seen in IBS patients. The researchers then used the drug riluzole, which is used clinically in the treatment of motor neuron disease, to activate this protein and reverse these effects. The research was supported by Science Foundation Ireland through a Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (CSET) grant to the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC). • Following a decision to relocate the HRB Clinical Research Facility to the Mercy University Hospital, a satellite research unit for Paediatrics has been developed on the CUH campus which is the primary academic centre for paediatrics in Cork. The HRB Discovery Centre welcomed its first research volunteer in December 2010. The centre will facilitate clinical assessment, data collection and evaluation of babies and children recruited to paediatric studies. The most active of these at present are the BASELINE birth cohort study led by Dr Deirdre Murray, which also includes assessment of skin barrier function’s association with food allergy led by Professor Jonathan Hourihane. The centre will also facilitate an FP7 research study on neonatal hypotension led by Dr Gene Dempsey due to commence in 2011. Click here for more information. Professor Hourihane succeeds Professor David Kerins as UCC’s representative on the board of Molecular Medicine Ireland. • Dr Mark Tangney and his team at the Cork Cancer Research Centre have shown that a bacteria commonly found in probiotic yoghurts has been shown to be a safe and effective way to deliver gene therapies to treat cancer. The research, which has been funded by the HRB, was published in Nature (April 2010). • Dr Patrick Harrison and Ciaran Lee (Physiology), in collaboration with Dr Martina Scallan (Microbiology), received a grant of $146,000 from Cystinosis Research Foundation, California for ‘Cystinosis gene repair’ whilst €298,000 of a multi-centre €9.6m FP7 programme Multi-FUN, was awarded to Dr Farouk Markos (Physiology) and €78,000 from IRCSET to study ‘Angiotensin peptides and kidney function’ was awarded to Julie O’Neill to work with Professor Edward Johns and Dr Vincent Healy, (all Physiology). • Professor Finbarr Allen was awarded €235,482 from the HRB for ‘Evaluation of minimally invasive oral healthcare for elderly Irish adults’. • Professor Helen Whelton was awarded €610,971 from the Oral Healthcare Industry for ‘Lough Bane Clinical Study to assess two dentifrices for the treatment of dentinal hypersensitivity’. • Professor Helen Whelton was awarded €306,947 from the Oral Healthcare Industry for ‘Lough Erne Clinical Study to assess two dentifrices for the treatment of dentinal hypersensitivity’. • Professor Helen Whelton was awarded €154,689 from the HRB for ‘Tackling oral health inequalities in pre-schoolers – an integrated approach’. • A collaborative link with Khartoum University Dental School, Sudan, and the Cork Dental School and Hospital yielded its first co-supervised PhD graduate, Dr Nada Sanhouri, in June 2010. Dr Sanhouri was the first student to graduate from UCC having been cosupervised by a member of staff, Dr Hassan Ziada, at Cork Dental School.
Foreword UCC at a Glance Academic Developments Teaching and Learning Research College Reports: Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences Business and Law Medicine and Health Science, Engineering and Food Science Events Student Experience Sports and Recreation Buildings and Estates Cork University Press Finance Governing Body IRIS Appendix 41 Teaching Highlights • The Minister for Trade and Commerce, Mr Billy Kelleher TD, announced in February that the Cork Cancer Research Centre is exploring a collaboration with Weill Cornell Medical College – one of the United States’ leading medical colleges. Components of this collaboration will include a medical research fellowship where Irish students will do part of their research in Weill Cornell. Physician exchange between the groups is also anticipated. • Professor Julia Kennedy (Pharmacy) was awarded €50,000 from the President’s Strategic Fund to develop continuing professional development (CPD) within the School of Pharmacy. This grant enabled a number of CPD modules to be written and recorded and a CPD programme has now been launched. • Thirty-three staff of the college qualified for awards in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education at masters, diploma and certificate levels: Ann Holohan, Clare Murphy, Siobhan Murray, Mary Harrington and Anne O’Keeffe (Dental School) were awarded MA degrees, Dr Mary O’Reilly was awarded a diploma, Dr Siobhan MacSweeney, Dr Fiona McSweeney, Dr Gerry McKenna, Dr Chris Stewart, Dr Derek Mulcahy, Dr Sharon Curtin and Caroline Horgan were awarded a certificate in the School of Nursing and Midwifery. Postgraduate certificates in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education were awarded to Sean Kelleher, Margaret Murphy and Kay O’Mahony. • The School of Nursing and Midwifery continues to develop certificate programmes and CPD flexi-optional modules. There are now eight flexi-option modules on offer covering a wide range of specialist areas. In addition, the taught doctoral nursing degree (Doctor of Nursing Practice - DNP) commenced in September 2010 and has a cohort of 16 students. • The School of Nursing and Midwifery arranged their first international clinical placement for undergraduates in the USA. • In line with the Cork University Dental School and Hospital (CUDSH) Strategic Plan, CUDSH has developed an exit degree for the third year of the BDS programme. This new degree, known as the BSc (Oral Health Studies), is awarded to students who decide to exit the undergraduate dental degree programme having successfully completed course requirements of BDS1, 2 and 3. It is envisaged that the degree will provide a suitable foundation for students to pursue studies in another programme should they decide that clinical dentistry is not the career for them. • The Brookfield Clinic in the School of Clinical Therapies was established by the HSE and UCC in 2005. In 2009/2010, for the first time, a speech and language therapist and an occupational therapist from the HSE worked part time on site. As they both work with a paediatric client group, they have begun to liaise and to see clients jointly. During term time students have also worked in both clinics. They are now getting opportunities to observe and experience joint working between Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy. Occupational Therapy Summer Camp
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