2008 Press Releases

Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) at UCC to benefit from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) funding
18.12.2008

The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at UCC is one of three world-class research centres to benefit from Science Foundation Ireland funding following the announcement on December 18th 2008 by the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Mary Coughan TD.
The Tánaiste announced substantial awards totalling €45.7million over five years, through Science Foundation Ireland. This investment provides 2nd term funding to three existing world-class research Centres for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSETs), and will be supplemented by an additional contribution from industry of €14.5million, bringing the overall investment to over €60million.

The Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre at UCC, under the directorship of Professor Fergus Shanahan, focuses on research in gastrointestinal health.  The other academic partner in the APC is the Teagasc Moorepark Food Research Centre. Industry partners are Alimentary Health and GlaxoSmithKline.

The other centres involved include CRANN, the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices which is hosted by Trinity College Dublin and is working in the area of Nanotechnology and DERI, the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, based at NUI Galway where the team are researching technologies that will underpin the next generation of the World Wide Web - the Semantic Web.

Announcing the awards, the Tánaiste said "From its inception, the SFI CSET programme has been designed to facilitate the creation of internationally-competitive, large-scale research centres that support high-quality collaborations between higher education institutes and industry-based researchers."

Commenting on the awards, Professor Frank Gannon, Director-General of SFI stated "SFI CSETs have led our portfolio of initiatives that are steadily moving Ireland towards a truly knowledge-based economy. These CSETs have been independently verified as playing an important role in building a world-class research system in Ireland, as well as linking successfully with major multi-national companies and providing an attractor for multinational investment in research in Ireland."

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