THE announcement last week of a €50m Government and industry research investment for the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre of food and medicine underlines its growing status as a national centre for food and medicine research excellence.

A Cork-based food and health research facility is to receive €50m in funding from the Government and private industry, with more than 100 jobs to be created by the investment.

Dublin-based drug development firm Trino Therapeutics has received €9m in additional funding — the second major investment in a Trinity College campus company in as many months.