Last updated on: 11/12/2019
Name of organisation
1) Department/Research groupCentre for Maternal, Fetal and Infant Research
2) Organisation/affiliationUniversity of Ulster
Short Name in the inventoryMFIR-Ulster
Administrative Contact
Title Mrs
Last name Taylor
First name Alyson
Address line 1Shore Rd
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityNewtownabbey
PostcodeBT370QB
CountryUnited Kingdom
Phone number (incl. country code)442895367123
Alternative phone number
Fax number (incl. country code)
Scientific Contact
Title Professor
Last name Dolk
First name Helen
Address line 1Shore Rd
Address line 2
Address line 3
CityNewtownabbey
PostcodeBT370QB
CountryUnited Kingdom
Phone number (incl. country code)442890368540
Alternative phone number
Fax number (incl. country code)442890368341
2. Description
The Centre for Maternal, Fetal and Infant Research (MFIR) at Ulster University has a programme of research including perinatal epidemiology, pharmacoepidemiology, maternal health and data linkage. The EUROmediCAT Coordinating Centre and EUROmediCAT central database is based within MFIR. EUROmediCAT is a collaborative network of congenital anomaly registries and institutions active in research on medication safety in pregnancy.
3. Category
University based
4. Available resources
In houseVia Contacts/Network
5. Therapeutic/disease areas of research in drug safety/risk-benefit performed in the past 5 years
Congenital Malformations
Pregnancy
6. Design of drug safety/risk-benefit studies published in the past 5 years
Cohort Study
Case Control Study
Drug Utilisation
Meta-Analysis
7. Experience in collecting data directly from individual patients/respondents
Number of Studies
Greater than 5
Number of patients/respondents involved in the study(ies)
Between 150 and 1499
8. Access to data collection resources
Capacity to conduct face-to-face interviews
Yes
In a clinic
Yes
In the community
Yes
Electronic data capture systems
Yes
System used:
electronic data files or web entry
Interactive voice response systems
No
Call centre
Yes
9. Experience in secondary research and meta-analysis
Yes
10. Work with existing data resources in the past 3 years
Name of data resourceNo. of studies
EUROCAT8
11. Registries established by centre
Disease RegistryEUROmediCAT central database
12. Experience in collaboration in a study team
Principal Investigator
Collaborating Investigator
13. Current involvement in research networks
Networks registered with ENCePP
ENTIS
EUROCAT
14. Interest in research opportunities which are funded
By pharmaceutical companies
By charities
By government
By research councils
By EU funding schemes
15. Interest in contract research only if free to publish results
Yes
16. Selected publications of the last 5 calendar years
ReferenceLink to web-publication
Garne E, Vinkel Hansen A, Morris J, Zaupper L, Addor M-C, Barisic I, Gatt M, Lelong N, Klungsoyr K, O'Mahony M, Nelen V, Neville A, Pierini A, Tucker D, de Walle H, Wiesel A, Loane M and Dolk H (2015). Use of asthma-medication during pregnancy and risk of specific congenital anomalies - A European case-malformed control study. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, DOI:10.1016/j.jaci.2015.05.043 http://www.EUROmediCAT.eu/publicationsandpresentations/publications
5. Helen Dolk, Hao Wang, Maria Loane, Joan Morris, Ester Garne, Marie-Claude Addor, Larraitz Arriola, Marian Bakker,Ingeborg Barisic, Berenice Doray, Miriam Gatt, Karin Kallen, Babak Khoshnood, Kari Klungsoyr, Anna-Maria Lahesmaa-Korpinen, Anna Latos-Bielenska, Jan P. Mejnartowicz, Vera Nelen, Amanda Neville,Mary O'Mahony, Anna Pierini, Anke Rißmann, David Tucker, Diana Wellesley, Awi Wiesel, and Lolkje T.W. de Jong-van den Berg (2016). Lamotrigine use in pregnancy and risk of orofacial cleft and other congenital anomalies. Neurology 86 (18): 1716-25 http://www.EUROmediCAT.eu/publicationsandpresentations/publications
Luteijn JM, Addor M-C, Arriola L, Bianchi F, Garne E, Khoshnood B, Nelen V, Neville A, Queisser-Luft A, Rankin J, Rounding C, Verellen-Dumoulin C, de Walle H, Wellesley D, Wreyford B, Yevtushok L, de Jong-van den Berg L, Morris J and Dolk H (2015). The effect of H1N1 pandemic influenza on congenital anomaly prevalence in Europe: an ecological time series study. Epidemiology 26 (6) 853-861 http://www.EUROmediCAT.eu/publicationsandpresentations/publications
