Microbiome

Microbiome science and innovation play a vital role to various sectors of the UK economy, including human health, wellbeing and agri-food. From personalised gut health solutions to nutrition, from animal health to food security and biodiversity.

We have created a microbiome community in the UK to highlight the UK’s world leading microbiome science and enable translation of this science to the benefit of the academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs, larger established companies that operate here, and to society at large. This community covers all microbiomes connected to human health and wellbeing, animal health and nutrition, and agri-food.

Since our microbiome activity began in 2019, we have developed a Microbiome Landscape Map, featuring over 150 organisations and over 400 research projects, providing a comprehensive view of the UK microbiome sector. We have also published two reports:

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Microbiome Landscape

Microbiome Landscape

Connecting the UK’s growing microbiome community to raise the visibility of the UK’s world leading microbiome science and enable its translation to benefit academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs and larger established companies.

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