Dr Simbirtseva is a Cardiologist with 18 years of medical experience. She has several specialisations including internal medicine, cardiology, age-management and health care organisation. In addition to clinical activities, she also has sufficient experience in scientific work.   As a former visiting scientist of Dr. Natalia Shulga, Dr Simbirtseva joined her lab on a fellowship award for a clinical rotation (practical training) in clinical gastroenterology, cardiology, and nephrology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry Strong Memorial Hospital, USA.  ..read more

EU-funded research project led by UCC will use breakthrough RNA technology for patient friendly oral medicines A research project, led by the School of Pharmacy in partnership with APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Centre at University College Cork (UCC), that is seeking to revolutionise how Crohn’s disease is treated has just been awarded €5.4 million in funding by the European Union (EU). Dr. Joey O’Shea, Prof Caitriona O’Driscoll, Dr. Piotr Kowalski and Dr. Patrick O’Dwyer of the School of Pharmacy, University College Cork. Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision   Crohn’s disease (CD) is a ch ..read more

Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of food and beverage ingredients and solutions, is delighted to announce that it is extending its partnership with APC Microbiome Ireland, a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre, through a new two-year research project to increase understanding of how dietary fibres can impact the functioning of the gut microbiome. In this new research project, which will be funded by Tate & Lyle, APC Microbiome Ireland will look at the metabolic pathways that could affect the relationship between the microbiome and health. The project will explain th ..read more

The role of the gut microbiome in pain sensation The gut microbiome has been linked to higher pain responses in women than men in an APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Centre study led by University College Cork’s Dr Siobhain O’Mahony and Prof George Shorten. The study published in the journal Brain Behaviour and Immunity highlights the possibilities for innovative individual targeted therapies for pain management. Notably women demonstrated different pain thresholds at various stages of their menstrual cycles. Dr. Siobhain O’ Mahony, a researcher at APC Microbiome Ireland and Senior Lecture ..read more

APC Researchers awarded funding under the SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme   APC Researchers Prof Jennifer Mahony and Dr Olivia O’Leary have each been awarded funding under the SFI Frontiers for the Future Programme as announced by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD. Jennifer Mahony has been awarded €478,945.00 to support the project ‘The sweet tooth of a bacterial virus: Unravelling Phage-Host Attachment and Recognition Modalities (PHARM) in the dairy bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus’. Prof Mahony is a PI at APC as well ..read more

APC Microbiome Ireland creates a fellowship for a Ukrainian Scientist APC Microbiome Ireland, a world leading SFI Research Centre has created a two-year Post-doctoral fellowship to host a scientist from Ukraine. The position will facilitate a research focus on the development of new diagnostics or biomarkers of health or risk of disease based on analysis of the microbiome; exploring the mechanisms by which the microbiome may be mobilised or manipulated to promote health; ‘mining’ the microbiome for new antimicrobials, therapeutics and functional food ingredients; deciphering the role of the m ..read more

Dr. Harriët Schellekens awarded funding to research the Behavioural neuroscience and endocrinology / Infant nutrition and health sciences. Dr. Harriët Schellekens, a funded investigator with APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Centre and lecturer in the department of Anatomy & Neuroscience has been awarded research funding from the Geneva-based BIOSTIME Institute Nutrition & Care (BINC) Foundation to explore the role of the gut microbiota in mediating the effects of early-life nutrition on neurodevelopment of appetite, food reward and food preference in adulthood, in a project called ..read more

APC Microbiome Ireland Summer Student Bursaries, 2022 Do you want to gain valuable laboratory research experience in a world-leading research centre? Are you a student studying a biological science or medicine in Ireland who will have completed 3 years of undergraduate study this summer? APC Microbiome Ireland (http://apc.ucc.ie) studies all aspects of the gastrointestinal microbiota, such as host-microbe interactions, the brain-gut-microbe axis, microbiota at the extremes of life, and pharmabiotics (any biological entity which can be ‘mined’ from the gastrointestinal microbiota, including pr ..read more

A selection of photos of the APC Community striking the 2022 IWD pose to help forge women’s equality and #BreakTheBias   The post APC Community strikes the 2022 IWD pose to help forge women’s equality and #BreakTheBias appeared first on APC Microbiome Ireland ..read more

New APC research helps us to better understand Long COVID A new Long COVID study from APC Microbiome Ireland, a world-leading SFI Research Centre based at University College Cork (UCC), finds that biomarkers of immune system activation are linked with impaired metabolism in Long COVID patients, which helps scientists understand the pathobiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection and associated long-term consequences. The research led by Prof. Liam O’Mahony and first authored by Dr. Corinna Sadlier, published this week in the international scientific journal “Allergy”, shows that the levels of multiple b ..read more