The Irish research centre APC Microbiome and the New Zealand headquartered dairy cooperative Fonterra will cooperate to harness the opportunities of the microbiome. The partnership will focus on the human microbiome and will see the establishment of the Fonterra Microbiome Research Centre at the University College Cork, to be operational by the end of 2023.The centre will help to identify and substantiate the health benefits of Fonterra’s probiotics, with the aim of bringing several new probiotic strains to the market over the next 5-10 years.