An Indian-origin professor Subrata Ghosh, a Cork-based global leader in research into Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, has been awarded €5.6 million in funding to establish a world-leading research lab at University College Cork (UCC).
Prof. Subrata Ghosh has received €5.6m through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) professorship award, to establish a new laboratory in University College Cork (UCC).
Ghosh is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in the UK and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, the highest honors given for leadership in life sciences and health research in those countries. He joined UCC last year, because of the world-class research in microbes and food carried out at APC Microbiome Ireland
Prof Ghosh will lead the new AUGMENT project at UCC’s APC Microbiome Ireland SFI Research Centre to investigate precision medicine in relation to gut inflammation and the microbiome.
The grant will resource a science research lab, and equipment, as well as 13 personnel, to investigate the nascent area of the micro biome in relation to gut inflammation and how it can be influenced by precision medicine to address critical health challenges.
Prof Ghosh said,“Chronic inflammatory diseases and cancer are major causes of disability and death in Ireland and in the world. Current treatments are limited by their efficacy ceiling and adverse effects,”
“Increasing the efficacy of currently used targeted therapies and minimising adverse events through modulation of the gut microbiome may have a major impact on the life of the sufferers and address the economic burden of expensive therapies that prove to be ineffective.” He added.
University College Cork President Prof John O’Halloran said: “This SFI Professorship Award by Professor Ghosh is vital in furthering our understanding of the interconnection between our digestive tract and a disease that impacts so many. This success will advance both our research capacity and success in patient outcomes”