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UCD maternity project wins at Analytics & AI Awards 2023 15Jun
UCD maternity project wins at Analytics & AI Awards 2023

A project led by University College Dublin that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose the dangerous pregnancy condition preeclampsia has today won the Social Impact Award at the Analytics Institute of Ireland AI And Analytics Awards.

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Prof Patricia Maguire on RTE Prime Time: "I really see AI transforming healthcare." 16May
Prof Patricia Maguire on RTE Prime Time: "I really see AI transforming healthcare."

Prof Maguire explains that her research "merges artificial intelligence, biomedical science and also the best clinical science, bringing all that information together and giving it to the clinician so that we can, if you like, augment their intelligence at a particular time so that they can make hopefully better decisions and save the lives of mothers and babies."
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‘Our test will save lives,’ says director of UCD’s Institute for Discovery 10May
‘Our test will save lives,’ says director of UCD’s Institute for Discovery

Whether championing the safety of mothers and babies or campaigning for gender equality in the sciences, UCD’s Prof Patricia Maguire is a firm believer that ‘information is power’.
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Irish AI maternity project makes UN Global Top 100 list 02May
Irish AI maternity project makes UN Global Top 100 list

A project led by University College Dublin that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose the dangerous pregnancy condition preeclampsia [PET] is included in a Global Top 100 list launching from the United Nations Headquarters in New York on Thursday.
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Combining Irish–US strengths in health tech research for better outcomes 31Mar
Combining Irish–US strengths in health tech research for better outcomes

Through renewed partnership in 2023, University College Dublin (UCD) and Northeastern University, Boston (NU) are driving technological breakthroughs across four core strands: Digital Rehabilitation and Independent Living; Biologics and Advanced Manufacturing; Enhanced Post-Cardiac Surgery Outcomes; and Maternal Health.

Discovery welcomes Northeastern University Visiting Global Professor Asieh Golozar. 31Jan
Discovery welcomes Northeastern University Visiting Global Professor Asieh Golozar.

On January 18th UCD Discovery welcomed Asieh Golozar as their first Global Visiting Professor of 2023. Professor Golozar is Director of Clinical Research at the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) Center, Northeastern University (NU).

AI_PREMie wins twice at AI Ireland Awards 23Nov
AI_PREMie wins twice at AI Ireland Awards

The AI_PREMie team today was honoured not once but twice at AI Awards Ireland with separate accolades for Best Application of AI to achieve Social Good and Best Application of AI in an Academic Research Body.
Ask me anything about AI! 11Jun
Ask me anything about AI!

At the UCD Festival on June 11th, 2022, Prof Patricia Maguire, director of UCD Institute for Discovery, led a lively Q&A session with Laurence Moroney, Artificial Intelligence Advocacy Lead at Google, entitled, “Ask me anything about AI!”

UCD/Mater hospital study shows routine blood test may predict COVID-19 severity 21Jul
UCD/Mater hospital study shows routine blood test may predict COVID-19 severity

A routine blood test on admission to hospital may predict the future severity of COVID-19 infection in patients. A new paper authored by a team of scientists and clinicians from UCD and Dublin’s Mater Misericordiae hospital

UCD Team Makes COVID-19 Blood Clot Breakthrough 18Feb
UCD Team Makes COVID-19 Blood Clot Breakthrough

A study led by clinicians and scientists at University College Dublin has found that Irish patients admitted to hospital with severe COVID-19 infection have "hypersensitive" platelet blood cells which can cause abnormal clotting.

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