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Congratulations to Dr Harri毛t Schellekens awarded the APC Industry & Entrepreneurship Award 2021/2022

18 Nov 2022

Congratulations to Dr Harri毛t Schellekens Principal Investigator and Lecturer in the Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience who has been awarded the APC Industry & Entrepreneurship Award 2021/2022 at the annual APC Symposium 2022, held on 7^th of October 2022 in the Devere Hall, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork.

Dr Schellekens was presented with the award in recognition of her recent and ongoing success in establishing many wholly funded APC-Industry collaborations, including a recent project with Tate & Lyle, investigating the metabolic pathways that may explain functional effects of prebiotics across the gut-brain axis, and the synbiotic potential of fibres and probiotic strains.  (awarded 鈧�393,472).

Receiving her award Dr Schellekens said 鈥榮he is very honoured to receive the APC Industry & Entrepreneurship award鈥�, adding that 鈥榯he award recognises the importance of collaborative work between the academic research teams and industry鈥� and that 鈥榯his award will also encourage other projects to benefit from such collaboration鈥�.

 Harriet has been very active in establishing industry collaborations and APC-industry wholly funded projects, amassing together >鈧�2,000,000 for 

for the brain-gut-microbiota axis theme in APC Microbiome Ireland. She has taken a leadership role and driven multiple APC-industry projects both scientifically and operationally, including very successful and long-standing collaboration projects with CREMO and Pharmavite Fonterra, and recently Health and Happiness (H&H) Research Limited Group, with collaborators Professor John F. Cryan, Professor Gerard Clarke, Dr Niall Hyland, and Dr Siobhain O鈥橫ahony. 

Dr Schellekens has contributed to other APC-industry projects, including PepsiCo and 4DPharma. She is an inventor on a patent (filed and pending, EP17187989.3) entitled: 鈥淏ifidobacterium longum APC1472 for treating obesity and weight management鈥�, which is evidence of the creative endeavour /development of novel technologies.

She has taken part in the SPRINT Accelerator Programme, KTI Lean Start-up Programme, Board excellence UCC Spinout Best Practices workshop, and I-CORPS@SFI Academy, and has developed a mechanistic screening platform for the identification and characterization of the most promising bacterial strains for metabolic and mental health with high potential for commercialisation.

Links

• Dr Harri毛t Schellekens鈥� PROTECT project awarded BINC funding
• Dr Harri毛t Schellekens embraces remote conferencing and hybrid work opportunities to communicate research findings
• Dr Harri毛t Schellekens invited speaker at Harvard Medical School Interdisciplinary Oxytocin Research Initiative
• Dr Harri毛t Schellekens' research paper features in the New York Post, Fox 深夜亚洲福利久久 and Irish Times

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