Professor John Cryan
University College Cork
John F. Cryan is Professor & Chair, Dept. of Anatomy & Neuroscience, University College Cork and was appointed Vice President for Research & Innovation in 2021. With over 650 peer-reviewed articles his research is focused on understanding the interaction between brain, gut, and microbiome at key time-windows across the lifespan.
He is a Senior Editor of Neuropharmacology and of Neurobiology of Stress and is on the editorial board of a further 10 journals. He has co-edited four books and is co-author of the bestselling “The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food, and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection”.
He has received numerous awards including from European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS), British Association of Pharmacology, Physiological Society, American Gastroenterology Association, Neuroscience Ireland, The Neonatal Society and FASEB. He was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Antwerp in 2018 and will be a Hagler Fellow at Texas A&M University from 2025. He has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list in 2014 and from 2017 to the present; a TEDMED & TEDx Speaker; Past-President of EBPS and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.