Grant Opportunities

The IAFNS Gut Microbiome (GM) Committee’s Live Dietary Microbes Subcommittee has the aim to advance the development of evidence related to the impact of beneficial live microbe intake on health. Although several researchers have independently hypothesized that consuming live microbes may be beneficial to health, understanding this relationship and developing a recommended intake range requires a systematic approach, including evaluation of existing evidence, addressing evidence gaps, and aligning the information with a framework of data needs required to support a recommendation.

As part of this systematic approach, the IAFNS GM committee is issuing a call for pre-proposals to investigate live microbe intake-health relationships using the Korean NHANES as well as other longitudinal prospective cohort databases. Although there is a specific interest in KNHANES because of the unique foods consumed by that population, several other longitudinal databases may also be interesting to interrogate. This call is open to pre-proposals that leverage KNHANES and/or another suitable database, at the recommendation of the researcher.

Details and full instructions can be found here.

Pre-proposals are due by midnight Eastern Time on March 22, 2023.

For questions, contact Marie Latulippe, Director of Science Programs, at mlatulippe@iafns.org.

The IAFNS Carbohydrates Committee is pleased to announce it is accepting applications for the above project.

Publication and travel stipends are available on an ad hoc basis for graduate students and post-docs who complete research based primarily on the Comprehensive Fiber Database developed and maintained by Tufts University with funding from IAFNS.

The database: https://iafns.org/our-work/research-tools-open-data/dietary-fiber-database/

Supported projects may include evidence reviews of fiber and health outcomes and knowledge or gaps analysis of a specific area of fiber as it relates to human health. Other uses may also be considered as long as the database is a primary tool used in conduct and analysis.

Travel Awards: Up to 2 travel awards may be granted annually to reimburse up to US $1,000 each to cover meeting registration or travel for a graduate student or post-doc to present in an oral or poster presentation a project in which the Comprehensive Fiber Database serves as the basis for analysis.

Publications: Awards will be granted on an ad hoc basis up to US $4,000 in the form of reimbursed fees for free access to a peer-reviewed paper accepted for publication by a student currently enrolled in a nutrition or food science graduate program. The same would apply to a post-doc in food science or nutrition who is the first author on a paper for which the Fiber Database is a primary tool for analysis.

Details and full instructions can be found in this form.

Please submit proposals at your convenience. Applications will be reviewed every 8 weeks. For further questions please contact blyle@iafns.org.