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APC Microbiome Ireland is a world leading research centre investigating the microbiome and its effect on human, animal and planetary health.
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The Centre/project is funded by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland, formerly Science Foundation Ireland. The APC Microbiome Institute, (http://apc.ucc.ie ) is a research centre funded by Science Foundation Ireland and industry partners. The APC Microbiome Institute, a partnership between University College Cork, Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, and the Cork Institute of Technology, focuses on research in gastrointestinal health. Pharmabiotic is a neologism devised by the APC Microbiome Institute to represent any material (including molecules and microbes) originating from the gut ecosystem that can be exploited for a health benefit, and includes probiotics, prebiotics, metabolites, and potential new anti-microbials and anti-inflammatories. The independent international ratings agency Thomson Reuters Science Watch global analysis, recently ranked University College Cork at number 2 in the world for probiotics research, due primarily to publications from researchers in the APC Microbiome Institute (http://sciencewatch.com/ana/st/probiotics/institution/).

10/11/2025

A great start to Science Week Ireland yesterday in Cork City's Marina Market. APC reserchers are looking forward to our big Science Week event there all day next Saturday 15th November.

07/11/2025

📣 Announcing the launch of NiMe Diet X GourmetFuel®
Rob Buckley - MD GourmetFuel® personally delivers some of the delicious new NiMe™ Diet range to NiMe™ founder Prof Jens Walter, a Research Ireland Prof University College Cork & PI at APC
🍽️ Order NiMe Meals in Ireland: gourmetfuel.com/NiMe

06/11/2025

📣 Announcing the launch of X ®
Rob Buckley, MD GourmetFuel® personally delivers some of the delicious new NiMe™ Diet range to NiMe™ founder Prof , a Prof & PI at APC
🍽️ Order NiMe Meals in Ireland: gourmetfuel.com/NiMe

03/11/2025

A big APC welcome to our new recruits. We are looking forward to working with you!

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween from all at APC.
Thanks to our Equality Diversity Inclusion Wellbeing Committee for organising a great celebration.

16/10/2025

APC making headlines in CNN Chile with our PhD student Benjamín Valderrama, University College Cork talking about his latest paper in NatureCommunications on the South American MicroBiome Archive (saMBA)

En una nueva edición de Futuro 360, junto a Paloma Ávila, exploramos el universo invisible que habita dentro de nosotros: el mayor archivo de microbiota inte...

17/09/2025

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16/09/2025

Welcome to all the new APC recruits, great to have you onboard

12/09/2025

In todays Irish Examiner, Tim Spector cites scientific research that’s come out of APC / University College Cork in his new book . APC's Paul Cotter is also featured in the article.
Research Ireland
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11/09/2025

APC's Jens Walter - University College Cork talks to Dr Claire O'Connell for todays The Irish Times about his research and developing the NiMe Diet
Research Ireland
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09/09/2025

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BioSciences Building, University College Cork, Western Road
Cork

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+353214901430

Website

http://apc.ucc.ie/, http://microbemagic.ucc.ie/

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APC Microbiome Ireland, (http://apc.ucc.ie ) is a flagship Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre funded by SFI and industry partners. APC Microbiome Ireland, a partnership between University College Cork, Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority, and the Cork Institute of Technology, explores the role of the microbiome in health and disease. Over the last 15 years, the APC has established itself as a global leader global in microbiome research, with several landmark discoveries and over 2000 research articles in peer-reviewed journals, generating many journal covers and associated editorials. In an independent bibliometric review of APC peer-reviewed publications, APC ranked #4 for microbiome research globally, and was ranked #1 for probiotic research and bacteriocin research and #5 for gut related diseases. In the last 5 years competitive research funding won from both national and international funding agencies has totalled over €70 million, with an additional €25 million from industry collaborations, and the APC has spun out 3 companies that now employ 40 researchers.