Useful Links

Health and Medicine

• Gut Week
• IBS Tales
• Health Products Regulatory Authority
• Irish Society for Colitis and Crohn’s Disease
• Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Centre

Food

• British Nutrition Foundation
• Food Safety Authority of Ireland
• Safe Food
• Institute of Food Research

Government

• Science Foundation Ireland
• Enterprise Ireland
• IDA Ireland
• Higher Educational Authority
• National Development Plan
• Science Foundation Ireland – Education & Public Engagement

Research and Innovation

• Teagasc
• Bioconnect Ireland
• ELDERMET
• European Federation of Biotechnology
• CFMatters

Professional Organisations

• American College for Gastroenterology
• British Socieity of Gastroenterologists
• Institute of Guidance Counsellors
• International Association of Surgeons Gastroenterologists and Oncologists
• Irish Science Teachers Association
• Irish Society of Gastroenterology
• Society for General Microbiology
• World Gastroenterology Organisation

Academic Bodies

• Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland
• University College Cork
• UCC School of Medicine and Health
• UCC Graduate Entry Medicine Programme
• UCC School of Food & Nutritional Sciences
• UCC Department of Microbiology

Probiotics And Prebiotics

DISCLAIMER: these links are provided for educational purposes only. The APC does not endorse or scientifically validate any probiotic products.

• ISAPP (International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics)
• Align GI
• Actimel
• Activia
• Probiotics in practice (for healthcare professionals)
• Yakult
• History of Probiotics article

Education and Outreach

• APC on Science Squad TV programme 2012
• APC scientists whose voices feature in the film Wonder House
• All Ireland Linguisitcs Olympiad
• BT Young Scientists & Technology Exhibition
• Calmast – Centre for Advancement of Learning of Maths, Science and Technology
• Career Opportunities in STEM (Smart Futures) hosted by SFI
• Cork Science Festival
• Debating Science Issues national debating competition Discovery Primary Science & Maths (SFI)
• Discover Sensors inquiry based science teaching, learning & assessment by DSE
• Dublin City of Science 2012 public engagement programme
• The European Food Information Council – EUFIC
• EuroScience Open Forum 2012 Dublin
• European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) Ireland
• Green Wave science experiment on arrival of spring in Ireland hosted by DSE/SFI
• Foundation of Bacteriology Virtual Museum of Bacteria
• Irish Primary Science and Maths for students and teachers hosted by DSE/ SFI
• Lifetime Lab Cork
• MAMBO – Me and My Body
• MyScience Career hosted by Discover Science & Engineering/SFI
• Nanoquest Nanotechnology Game
• NASA’s Fundamental Space Biology Outreach
• Public Awareness and Understanding of Science
• REMEDI – Regenerative Medicine Institute
• Royal College of Surgeons or Ireland Outreach
• Science Friction
• Science Gallery at Trinity College
• Science Technology and Innovation Awareness hosted by DSE/SFI
• Science Week Ireland hosted by Discover Science & Engineering/SFI
• SciFest Science Exhibition hosted by Intel & Discover Science & Engineering
• Scoilnet portal for Irish Education
• Skool interactive learning
• Smart Futures STEM Careers (SFI)
• Try Science
• The Investigators – Functional Food
• University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Biology Education
• W5 – Interactive Discovery Centre, Belfast