Alimentary Health has won an award in the inaugural US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards for its work bringing a patented Irish probiotic, discovered in UCC, to the UK and Irish market under its own brand ALFLOREX®, and in collaboration with Proctor & Gamble in the US as ALIGN®.

UCC’s performance in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015 has reinforced its position as a leading university internationally, with 13 subject areas featuring in the top tier globally.

Researchers in the Analytical & Biological Chemistry Research Facility (ABCRF) at UCC led by Anita Maguire, have designed and synthesised a new class of compounds with potential in the discovery of new antiviral drugs.

Professor Nabeel Riza, Head of UCC’s School of Engineering, has received an Honorary Fellow Award from Engineers Ireland.

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UCC’s MSc Information Systems for Business Performance (ISBP) has won Postgraduate Course of the Year in the business category at the annual Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards.

A third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused until 2050 according to expert Dr Christophe McGlade.

Inspired by the George Boole commemorations, a fourth year music student at UCC, Robert Creed, composed a piece of music to accompany a poem written by Boole on 'The Communion of Saints'.

UCC researchers have found that people with multimorbidity (that is two or more chronic diseases at the same time) were more likely to report having had bad experiences in childhood than people without multimorbidity.  

The APC Microbiome Institute at UCC has entered into an alliance with Second Genome Inc. to develop microbiome-based therapies that prevent and treat inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).