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A patent pending tool to determine colorectal cancer status by screening the oral microbiota alone or in combination with fecal microbiota.


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Showcasing the companies that have emerged from UCC Innovation over the years, illustrating a diverse range of technologies across a wide variety of areas.


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Our Impact

€125m Research Income in 2022/23

Highest ever research generated income

44 spin-out companies created since 2008 based on UCC Intellectual Property

UCC have 20 European Research Council grant awardees, 10 of which were awarded since 2021 in Horizon Europe.

190 graduate founders working on 160 start-up ideas, the most successful of which now employ almost 370 staff

2,853 publication outputs in 2021

105,343 citations (2019-2021)

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Chairman of UCC’s Governing Authority, Sean O’Driscoll, European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath, Head of the UCC College of Business and Law Prof. Thia Hennessey, and UCC President Prof. John O'Halloran at the launch of the Economic and Societal Impact of University College Cork report. Photo: Daragh McSweeney/Provision.
10 Dec 2024

UCC generates €3.2 million every day for the Irish economy

University College Cork (UCC) generates €3.2 million every day for the Irish economy, according to a new report published last night. The independently verified report, Economic and Societal Impact of University College Cork, shows that the University supports almost 1 in every 13 jobs in Cork city and county and provides a return of €6 for every €1 of state investment.
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UCC PhD researcher Giorgia Anile, Founder and Director of The Toy Library, is pictured with her daughter Sophia at a toy swap event to mark the launch of The Toy Library’s Circular Christmas campaign. Photo: Clare Keogh.
04 Dec 2024

Ireland’s Toy Library promotes sustainable Christmas giving

The Toy Library offers a free way for families to donate and find toys this Christmas season. A UCC researcher is encouraging families to join the ‘Circular Christmas’ movement and helping to reduce the environmental impact of toys across Ireland. The toy industry is the most plastic intensive industry in the world.
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Dr Tom Birkett, Senior Lecturer in Old English and Old Norse at UCC School of English and Digital Humanities, has been awarded a €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to lead research on legacy of the Vikings in Europe. Photo credit: Portia Ameyalli Cruz – UCC.
03 Dec 2024

Major research to investigate legacy of the Vikings in Europe

UCC researcher to lead European-wide project investigating how ideas, misinformation and extremist narratives about the Vikings spread. Dr Birkett awarded €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to lead research on the legacy of the Vikings. NorseMap will adapt large-scale citizen science mapping to the humanities.
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Celebrating 175 years of Physics at UCC are L-R: Prof John McInerney, School of Physics, UCC; Prof Sarah Culloty, Head, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science; Luke O’Sullivan, 2nd Year Student, Recipient of John Delaney Memorial Prize for 2024; Prof Paul Callanan, Head, School of Physics. Photo: UCC TV
29 Nov 2024

Pioneering laser expert joins UCC’s 175th physics anniversary

An internationally renowned expert in the field of ultrafast laser and x-ray science is among the high-profile graduates who took part in a special event on 29 November celebrating 175 years of Physics at University College Cork (UCC). Professor Margaret Murnane is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her accolades include the 2022 Isaac Newton Medal and Prize, awarded by the Institute of Physics.
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