Subrata is the Chair and Head of Medicine, College of Medicine and Health at UCC since March 2021. He is also Deputy Director of the APC. Subrata did his doctoral research on the immunology of IBD at University of Edinburgh where he was appointed as faculty. Between 2002 and 2008 he was Prof and Chair of Gastroenterology at Imperial College London and from 2009 to 2016 he was Prof and Chairman of Medicine, University of Calgary, and Head of Medicine, Alberta Health Services, Canada. His research interests are precision medicine in IBD, innovative clinical trials, immune cell plasticity, targeted immunotherapies in IBD, interaction of nutrients, microbes and immune system, gut inflammation and nutrition, innate immunity and epidemiology and health care in IBD. He has published over 500 peer reviewed scientific articles and several books and has an h-index of 101 (Google).