APC Microbiome Ireland - 20 years of impact

Hogan, David

APC Microbiome Ireland - 20 years of impact

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2023-12

Authors

Hogan, David

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APC Microbiome Ireland

Abstract

In the 20 years since our foundation, APC Microbiome Ireland (APC) has had a profound and pioneering impact on the world of microbiome research. And our focus on such major societal challenges as chronic and infectious disease, anti-microbial resistance and sustainable food development means that our ground breaking scientific research has huge relevance to human and planetary health. We have published thousands of papers on excellent science – on average a publication per day each year. We have pioneered new directions of research into microbes and the brain, inflammatory bowel disease and early-life and elderly nutrition. We have discovered thousands of new species of microbes that will underpin medical treatments and will protect foods of the future, displacing antibiotics and increasing sustainability. We have spun out companies that are translating these discoveries to the clinic and market. The depth of our science and our focus on solutions makes APC a household name in microbiome research. Our researchers are recognised as being among the most highly cited and influential in the world. Industry and academics around the world - from Ireland to New Zealand and back - want to work with us, and our science communication and public engagement bring our discoveries into conversations in media, schools and homes. By understanding the composition and structures of the microbiomes in, on and around us, APC is developing new and sustainable tools and approaches to optimising those malleable microbiome communities to support global sustainability and health from infancy to old age. And the common denominator underpinning this scientific excellence is our people. At APC we are a family of like-minded and passionate experts working on a world full of microbes. I congratulate our APC family on the last 20 years and look forward to our coming decades of further excellence and impact, mobilising microbes for planet and people health.

Keywords

APC Microbiome Ireland , Human health , Planetary health , Microbes

Citation

Hogan, D. (2023) APC Microbiome Ireland - 20 years of impact. Cork: APC Microbiome Ireland, pp. 1-31. Available at: https://www.teagasc.ie/media/website/publications/2023/APC-Microbiome-Ireland---20-years-of-imapct.pdf (Accessed: 26 February 2025)