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Annual awards recognise and celebrate excellence in research and innovation.

APC staff and affiliations were among the key winners at the 2022 UCC Research awards collecting 5 separate awards for contributions to research and innovation.

APC Microbiome Ireland together with BowelScreen, the National Colorectal Cancer Screening service, and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in new international AI project - ‘Microb-AI-ome’ – to increase sensitivity and reduce ‘false-positive’ rates in colorectal cancer screening

APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading SFI research centre based at UCC (University College Cork), has joined forces with BowelScreen and the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, as part of 8 partner organisations from 5 European countries involved in the new Microb-AI-ome project launched in May of this year. Led by Prof. Dr. Jan Baumbach, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert from the University of Hamburg, the project aims to reduce the high false-positive rates associated with traditional CRC (colorectal cancer) screening and develop a more targeted and cost effective screening programme.

Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, has today announced 62 grants valued at €42 million to support research across 13 Higher Education Institutions. This programme was funded in collaboration with the Children’s Health Foundation (CHF) and Geological Survey Ireland (GSI).

WMD 2023 shines a spotlight on microbiomes for sustainable & healthy diets

APC Microbiome Ireland is proud to welcome its newest research fellows as part of the INSPIRE Fellowship programme

World IBD Day takes place on 19 May each year and unites people worldwide in their fight against Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD.

APC and SeqBiome are proud to host the 2023 meeting, Next Generation Bioinformatics Tools for Microbiome Research on June 7th in the Aula Maxima in UCC

This opinion piece by Prof Fergus Shanahan was orginally published by RTÉ Brainstorm 3/5/2023

In its annual ranking of international scientists Research.com has scored seven APC and UCC scientists in the top ten list of Irish microbiologists.  APC Director Paul Ross who was ranked first in Ireland and 25th globally, was also the recipient of Research.com’s Microbiology Leader Award for 2023.

• Scientists have produced an atomic-level structure of a novel virus that attacks and kills bacteria in the human gut.
• This major breakthrough will facilitate research to investigate their role on human health.
• These highly abundant viruses can account for up to 95% of gut viruses in some individuals.