A unique partnership to explore the use of viruses in the gut as potential therapeutics

The Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Mr. Enda Kenny will formally announce an exciting new research alliance between Janssen Biotech Inc., (Janssen), one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre’s Microbiome Institute of Cork, Ireland, while visiting Washington, DC during the St Patrick’s Day Celebrations.  This new research alliance, facilitated by Johnson & Johnson Innovation, London, will explore the role of viruses in shaping the human microbiome and their potential use as novel treatments and/or biomarkers of inflammatory bowel disease.

At the Science Foundation Ireland research celebrations in Washington DC, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, in announcing the new research collaboration, said “this collaboration between the APC Microbiome Institute and Janssen in this important area of emerging science will facilitate Irish research outputs reaching a global market place and deliver innovative health products that will improve patients’ lives”.

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