Professor Jennifer Mahony and Professor John Morrissey receive funding under the HORIZON Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks programme
Their work to improve the quality and safety of fermented beverages through the management and control of spoilage microorganisms has been awarded 鈧�572,976 as part of the European Union's climate objectives and targets.
The project led Professor Jennifer Mahony (Project Beneficiary), School of Microbiology and Professor John Morrissey (Project Beneficiary), Director of SUSFERM Fermentation Science Centre and School of Microbiology, sets out a multi-disciplinary strategy to tackle the problem of microbial spoilage of fermented beverages (wine, spirits, beer, cider, kombucha, kefir) through an array of sustainable biological, chemical and physical treatments.
Other UCC researchers to recieve funding include Dr Pat Meere, Dr Harri毛t Schellekens and Dr Padraic Morrissey.
Professor John F. Cryan, UCC Vice President for Research and Innovation said: "Congratulations to the UCC researchers and their European colleagues in receiving funding awards through the HORIZON MCSA Doctoral Networks programme. This programme is important in the careers of early-stage researchers at UCC by providing research training to highly skilled doctoral candidates and enhancing their innovation capacity through exposure to academic and non-academic sectors."
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