Microbiome research: A key to improving health, driving food production, and boosting EU innovation   The next generation of functional food and feed will be directed towards the microbiome to improve health, drive food production and support a more sustainable agriculture. These wer More

APC Spin-out Company Creates New Jobs in Cork Tucana Health Ltd is a new spin-out from the APC Microbiome Institute founded by Professors Fergus Shanahan and Paul O’Toole to investigate how the composition of bacterial communities in the gut can aid the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Sci More

Summer Studentships at APC Unfortunately due to COVID restrictions, we will not run our annual Summer Internship Programme at APC in 2021. We plan to offer our summer internship opportunities again in 2022.   More

APC to host Microbiome-based Foods for Health and Sustainability Workshop The APC Microbiome Institute will host a workshop in Brussels entitled ‘Microbiome-based Foods for Health and Sustainability’  on 23rd February 2016 at the Thon Hotel EU. We propose that the next generation of fu More

AbbVie and SFI invest €7.5 million in  new APC Microbiome Institute research collaboration in Crohn's disease 21st November 2015 The APC Microbiome Institute is delighted to announce a €7.5m investment by Science Foundation Ireland and AbbVie for a five-year research collaboration  More

APC features  in   "10  Things to Know About" APC's John Cryan, Ted Dinan and Catherine Stanton all feature in tonight's "Guts" episode of the TV series "10 Things to Know About" on RTE 1  tonight at 8.30pm A healthy gut is essential for our  mental as well as our physical health.  J More

All hands are on deck at the APC this week for Science Week Ireland (8-15 November).  Themed “Design your future”, Science Week 2.0 marks 20 years of the national event coordinated by Science Foundation Ireland that celebrates the fascinating worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathe More

  Life Beyond the Lab The talents of the APC community extend far beyond the lab! Amanda Forde loves to take to the skies in her spare time. She has been flying for over 3 years, qualified with a private pilot licence about 2 years ago and regularly takes family and friends up in the a More

Funding Success Elaine Enright received an Irish Research Council Studentship supervised by Cormac Gahan, Susan Joyce and Brendan Griffin , School of Pharmacy Eva McArdle has received funding to develop  a “Food is Funky – what happens to food after you swallow?” workshop for children More

Profile: Elisa Salivette Dr. Elisa Salivette is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the APC Microbiome Institute. Elisa graduated in Agro-Industrial Biotechnology in 2008 and in 2012 completed a PhD at the University of Verona. Her PhD (supported by Yakult Europe B.V) investigated the contr More