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John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork and was appointed Vice President for Research & Innovation in 2021.  He is also a Principal Investigator in the APC Microbiome Institute. He received a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biochemistry and PhD in Pharmacology from the National 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Ireland, Galway, Ireland and was a visiting fellow at the Dept Psychiatry, 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Melbourne, Australia, which was followed by postdoctoral fellowships at the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. He spent four years as a Group Leader in the pharmaceutical industry at the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel Switzerland prior to joining UCC in 2005. Prof. Cryan's current research is focused on understanding the interaction between brain, gut & microbiome and how it applies to stress, psychiatric and immune-related disorders at key time-windows across the lifespan. Prof. Cryan has published over 600 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has a H-index of 146 (Google Scholar; Oct 2022). He is a Senior Editor of Neuropharmacology and of Neurobiology of Stress. He is on the editorial board of a further 15 journals. He has co-edited four books and is co-author of the bestselling  鈥淭he Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection鈥 (National Geographic Press, 2017). He has received numerous awards including UCC Researcher of the Year in 2012,  the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Utrecht Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research in 2013, UCC Research Communicator of the Year 2017, and the Datta Prize from FASEB in 2022. He and has been named on the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher list in 2014 and Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher list each year from 2017 to present.. He was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2017 and has served on UCC鈥檚 Governing Body for 6 years. He also received a Research Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterology Association and the Tom Connor Distinguished Scientist Award from Neuroscience Ireland in 2017 and was awarded an honorary degree from the 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Antwerp, Belgium in 2018. He was a TEDMED speaker in Washington in 2014 and is Past-President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.

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Prof. Cryan's current research interests include the neurobiological basis of stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders including depression, anxiety and drug dependence. Moreover, his group is also focused on understanding the interaction between brain, gut & microbiome and how it applies to stress and immune-related disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome and obesity and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism.

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