Cork professor looking to the gut for alternatives to antidepressants 3 hours ago Prof Ted Dinan. Image: Clare Keogh When it comes to discovering new therapeutic interventions for stress-related disorders, Prof Ted Dinan is listening to his gut instinct. Considered one of the world’s top experts on gut microbiota, Prof Ted Dinan is medical director of Cork-based Atlantia Clinical Trials. He is also a principal investigator at APC Microbiome Ireland, a research institute dedicated to microbiome science based at University College Cork. Dinan has worked in research laboratories on both sides of the Atlantic and his primary interest is the role of gut microbiota in stress-related disorders. He has published more than 500 papers and numerous books on pharmacology and neurobiology and was awarded the Melvin Ramsay Prize for research into the biology of stress.