Ita Herlihy is a Clinical Research Nurse who joined the team at the Clinical Research Facility (CRF) in February 2012. She has amassed 10 years’ experience working within Clinical Trials. Ita is currently working with Professorr.Eugene Dempsey, Consultant Neonatologist, Cork University Maternity Hospital on two projects. The HIP Trial is an EU FP7 funded project and is the largest multi cantered European study in Extremely Low Gestational Age Newborns (ELGANs), it is a Phase III Clinical Trial entitled ‘HIP - Management of Hypotension In the Preterm’. This trial is currently enrolling. The SafeboosC trial (Safeguarding the brain of our smallest children) SafeboosC is now in the follow up phase having recruited 21 infants in Cork born less than 28 weeks gestational age to monitor cerebral oxygen levels using Near Infrared Spectroscopy. It is an investigator-initiated randomised, blinded, multinational, phase II feasibility clinical trial. She has also been responsible for  recruitment for the RSV study.  RSV is an observational study of the risk factors for RSV hospitalisation in a cohort of infants born between 32 and 36 weeks and 6 days gestational age. Ita recruited a total of 211 subjects onto this study over a 9 month period.).Ita is also a member of the Neonatal Brain Research Group based in the Cork University Maternity Hospital University for the past 3 years.