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AI Healthcare Hub Launch

Invitation-only event: The UCD AI Healthcare Hub Launch - meet the leadership and networking reception for researchers and collaborators will take place on Wednesday May 15th.

HHIT Series Episode 12 with Peter MacMahon

On 22 May 2024, Professor Peter MacMahon, Consultant Radiologist at the Mater Hospital and a Clinical Professor at UCD, will speak about Generative AI in the ED - Developing tools to predict the future

News and achievements of the UCD Discovery research community.

21Feb

Harnessing "the magic of AI" to mitigate the next pandemic

David Hickton describes the Covid-19 pandemic as “a very expensive learning curve”.
The former US Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania was appointed Staff Director of the bipartisan committee on coronavirus in the US Congress in 2020, where he oversaw trillions of dollars in federal relief funding to tackle the crisis.

13Feb

Dr Niamh Shaw in Antarctica

Though freezing cold on deck as the ship made its way towards Antarctica, Dr Niamh Shaw was too transfixed to notice. For there, in the deep blue Southern Ocean, right before her eyes, a whale surfaced with a loud spurt of air. Then another and another: a whole whale family.
“You find yourself crying because there are no words,” says the Irish space reporter and climate activist. “You feel a very strong connection to the planet that almost feels parental.”

08Feb

Upcoming Dr John Basl talk to address ethics ecosystem for AI

The military has one. So does legal practice. The finance industry, the world of medicine - tick, tick.
So why doesn’t AI and big data have a serviceable ethics ecosystem?
Dr John Basl, philosopher and AI ethics lead at Northeastern University will answer this question and more at his UCD talk next Monday, February 12th.

30Nov

UCD Discovery co-hosts a workshop on AI and Healthcare at Nagoya University IAR

UCD Discovery conducted an invited visit to the Nagoya University Institute of Advanced Research, Japan, to co-host a workshop on AI and Healthcare at the UBIAS Directors Conference with the aim to develop a collaboration across the network of 50 Institutes of Advanced Study.

28Nov

UCD AI Healthcare Hub joins Ireland’s Connected Health and Wellbeing Cluster

The AI Healthcare Hub in University College Dublin has become a member of Ireland’s Connected Health and Wellbeing Cluster, funded by Enterprise Ireland. Set up to support collaboration across the technology and health sectors, the Cluster encourages and facilitates increased interaction and cooperation between industry, academia, healthcare providers and enterprise support agencies.

16Nov

AI_PREMie features on RTÉ programme Game Changer: AI and You

The Science Foundation Ireland trans-institutional maternity project AI_PREMie features on tonight’s RTÉ programme, Game Changer: AI and You, which examines the increasing power and influence artificial intelligence will have on our lives.

14Nov

Provocative keynote by Stuart Russell

Before a packed room in Dublin’s National Concert Hall for ‘AI and Society’ on November 8th, AI visionary Stuart Russell likened the current competencies of artificial intelligence to only the very earliest days of aviation.
“I would be of the opinion that we are at the hot air balloon phase; a lot of hot air,” he added.

11Oct

Ana Le Chevililer is a finalist in 2023 Young AI Role Model of the Year 2023

Ana Le Chevillier, Clinical Research Manager of AI_PREMie, is a finalist in the 2023 Young AI Role Model of the Year at this year’s AI Ireland Awards.
AI_PREMie is the multi-award winning decision support tool for diagnosing the dangerous pregnancy condition preeclampsia. It is the flagship project at University College Dublin’s AI Healthcare Hub (AIHH), which Le Chevillier also manages.

10Oct

AI_PREMie wins AI Innovation of the Year at Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards 2023

AI_PREMie has won the AI Innovation of the Year at the inaugural Public Sector Digital Transformation Awards, which celebrate the incredible achievements of the Irish public sector digital transformation.
The black tie gala event was held in Dublin's Shelbourne hotel.

19Sep

UCD’s NAIXUS membership “puts Ireland on the map”

UCD has been awarded membership of NAIXUS, a global network of Artificial Intelligence Excellence Centres in Sustainable Development. "UCD has joined a growing list of partners from over 40 universities, institutes, and foundations worldwide who will collaborate on harnessing AI to achieve the United Nations SDGs," says Prof Patricia Maguire.

14Sep

“If I go on a hike, my legs could be killing me for a week.”

Ashleigh Kiernan was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) aged 7, in December 2010. Her mother noticed “little purple spots” appearing on her skin, says Ashleigh, which were quickly identified as the petechiae rash that can be, she adds, “one of the signs for leukaemia”.

13Sep

"After chemotherapy I was given a 5% chance of fathering a child - it’s a miracle.”

“Miracles do happen,” says Karl Corcoran, 25, from Longwood, Co. Meath, as he and his partner Leah prepare to welcome their first child this month. Before he had even begun treatment for his High Grade B-Cell Lymphoma in January 2021, Karl says he was given a 5% chance - “absolute best case scenario” - of fathering a biological child.

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.

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."

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’.

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.

07Apr

The role AI will play in augmenting future healthcare

Discovery Visiting Global Fellow Professor Aaron Quigley speaks to Silicon Republic following his HHIT Series Talk at UCD. Full article on Silicon Republic.

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.

31Jan

Discovery Welcomes Northeastern University Visiting Global Professor Asieh Golozar

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).

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