IMPACTT is the multi-disciplinary microbiome research core funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) to build Canada’s microbiome research community and strengthen Canada’s position as an international leader in microbiome research. We provide support, expertise, and leadership to microbiome researchers across Canada, and our aim is to harness the power of the microbiome to promote health.

IMPACTT stands for Integrated Microbiome Platforms for Advancing Causation Testing and Translation. The IMPACTT core is made up of five platforms led by 16 scientific experts across Canada, and supports a wide variety of studies in the microbiome field, including animal studies, human cohort studies, the establishment of human tissue and microbe repositories, and the development of new bioinformatics tools to analyze microbiome data.

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