John Cryan

Professor John F. Cryan is Vice President for Research & Innovation at University College Cork, Ireland, and a Principal Investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland. He holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, and The Scripps Research Institute, California. He also served as Behavioural Pharmacology Lab Head at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Basel, Switzerland.

Prof. Cryan's research focuses on the brain-gut-microbiome interaction and its implications for stress, psychiatric disorders, and immune-related conditions across the lifespan. He has co-authored over 650 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has a H-index of 152. He holds editorial roles in Neuropharmacology, Neurobiology of Stress, and several other journals. He is a co-author of the bestselling book "The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection" (National Geographic Press, 2017).

He has received numerous accolades, including UCC Researcher (2012) and Research Communicator (2017) of the Year: the University of Utrecht Award for Excellence in Pharmaceutical Research (2013); recognized as a highly cited researcher (2014 - Thomson Reuters; Clarivate Analytics 2017-2020); elected as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2017); honoured with a Research Mentor Award from the American Gastroenterology Association (2017) and the Tom Connor Distinguished Scientist Award (Neuroscience Ireland - 2017); presented with an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp, Belgium (2018); was a TEDMED speaker (2014); served as the Past-President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society.