Research groups#

This is a non-comprehensive list of some of the research teams, projects and conferences in this field.

Groups#

Neonatal Data Analysis Unit, part of the Neonatal Medicine Research group at Imperial College London, led by Professor Neena Modi. Founded to support the management and development of the National Neonatal Research Database (NNRD).[website]

Oxford Labour Monitoring group in the Nuffield Department for Women’s and Reproductive Health at the University of Oxford lead by Antoniya Georgieva.[website]

National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit at the University of Oxford. Wide range of research focusses, including involvement research around care of the compromised term infant, and running TOBY trials of therapeutic hypothermia.

Discipline of Paediatric Medicine at the University of Dublin Trinity College. Wide range of research projects including e.g. GEMINI Project: GEnder and inflaMmatIoN In neonatal encephalopathy. Pi Professor Eleanor Molloy 2019-22.[website]

INFANT team at University College Cork who developed automated system recognising patterns in electrical brain activity in infants with neonatal encephalopathy.

Pediatric, Newborn, and Fetal Developmental Neuroscience (Brigham Infant Brain Studies, BIBS) in the Department of Pediatrics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.[website]

Perinatal and developmental neurology research in Paediatrics and Child Health - Clinical and Experimental Sciences at the University of Southampton.

Collaborations#

Health Research Board Neonatal Encephalopathy PhD Training Network (NEPTuNE) which supports PhD projects.[website]

Neonatal and Children’s Brain Consortium Ireland[website]

Conferences and Workshops#

Signal Process and Monitoring in Labour (SPaM) in Labour Workshop - ran in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022. Next on 1-3 July 2024 in Italy.[website] [SPaM 2024 website]

International Newborn Brain Conference Series

Projects#