Please select an organization below for a list of available funding opportunities:
The A.S.P.E.N. Rhoads Research Foundation
Allen Foundation
American Dietetic Association Foundation
American Medical Association
Berlex Foundation
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center
Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Foundation of the American Gastroenterological Association
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Nestle Foundation
Prevent Cancer Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation
The Gerber Foundation
The Pew Charitable Trusts
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
The A.S.P.E.N. Rhoads Research Foundation funds leading research projects in nutrition and metabolic support. The following grants are currently available:
- Maurice Shils Grant
- Nutrition Research Grant
- Yoshimura Grant
- Fleming Grant
- Small Research Grant
Allen Foundation Grants
The Allen Foundation seeks projects that primarily benefit programs for human nutrition in the areas of health, education, training, and research.
Deadline 12/31/2009
American Dietetic Association Foundation (ADAF) Grants
This program offers multiple small grants.
Deadline 12/1/2009
American Medical Association (AMA) Seed Grant Research Program
The purpose of this grant is to encourage medical students, physician residents, and fellows to enter the research field.
Deadline 12/11/2009
Berlex Foundation Bayer Award in Basic Science Research
This award supports promising research in basic, laboratory, or animal science. This can include ongoing or new investigations. These typically involve laboratory measurements as primary outcomes, as opposed to clinical outcomes (e.g., infection, operating time, relief of pain).
Deadline 10/1/2009
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Nutrition Grants
This program offers support for the following strategies to solve the issue of poor nutrition:
- Close gaps in the understanding of poor nutrition and how to treat it.
- Accelerate the development and production of fortified foods and provide access to them.
- Promote breastfeeding and provide access to complementary foods.
- Reduce low birth weight.
- Develop crops with higher levels of nutrients.
- Advocate for comprehensive global and country-led nutrition solutions.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Funding for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health
This program is intended to improve care during pregnancy and delivery with the following goals:
- Improve newborn care.
- Improve health care for children under 2.
- Research, document, and promote the effects of the work.
- Advocate for more attention to the health of women, babies, and children.
Boston Obesity Nutrition Research Center (BONRC) Pilot and Feasibility Studies
BONRC funds pilot projects for research related to obesity, weight regulation, metabolic function, and nutrition.
Deadline 9/1/2009
Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation (CDHNF) offers several funding opportunities:
CDHNF Young Investigator Development Award & CDHNF/NASPGHAN George Ferry Young Investigator Development Award
This two-year grant is available to new and junior faculty to support research activities that have the potential for evolution to an independent research career in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology or nutrition.
Deadline 8/6/2009
CDHNF/Nestle Nutrition Research Young Investigator Development Award
This two-year grant is available to new and junior faculty to support research activities that have the potential for evolution to an independent research career in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology or nutrition.
Deadline 8/6/2009
CDHNF/Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America Young Investigator Development Award
This two-year grant, funded in conjunction with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, is available to new and junior faculty in support of research relating to a clinical, epidemiological or a basic scientific aspect of pediatric Crohn's disease and/or ulcerative colitis.
Deadline 8/6/2009
CDHNF/Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America Inc. Research Innovation Award
The CDHNF/TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc Research Innovation Award provides a two-year grant for innovative, high-impact research in pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition. The intent of this research award is to stimulate scientific inquiry in an area that is exceptionally innovative and has the potential to impact the field in a highly novel manner.
Deadline 8/6/2009
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship Award
The Foundation encourages all theoretical and experimental research relevant to the study of cancer and the search for cancer causes, mechanisms, therapies and prevention.
Deadline 8/17/2009
Foundation of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) - Foundation for Digestive Health and Nutrition (FDHN) Fellowship to Faculty Transition Award
This award provides funding for two years for current trainees in gastroenterology related fields so they may gain additional research training in gastrointestinal, liver function or related diseases.
Deadline 9/4/2009
FDHN Funderburg Research Scholar Award in Gastric Biology Related to Cancer
Deadline 9/4/2009
FDHN Elsevier Pilot Research Award
Grants are provided to investigators to support pilot research projects in gastroenterology- or hepatology-related areas.
Deadline 1/1/2010
FDHN Research Scholar Awards
This award is intended to enable young investigators to develop independent and productive research careers in digestive diseases by ensuring that a major proportion of their time is protected for research.
Deadline 1/29/2010
FDHN Bernard L. Schwartz Designated Research Scholar Award in Pancreatic Cancer
Deadline 1/29/2010
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) offers several funding opportunities:
Career Development Award
Advanced Postdoctoral Fellowship
Early Career Patient-oriented Diabetes Research Award
Regular Research Grant
Innovative Grant
Deadline 7/29/2009
The Nestle Foundation offers several funding opportunities:
Nestle Foundation Training Grant (TG)
This grant is primarily focused on human nutrition research issues including:
- maternal and child nutrition, including breastfeeding and complementary feeding, macro- and micronutrient deficiencies and imbalances,
- interactions between infection and nutrition, and
- nutrition education and health promotion.
Deadline 1/10/2010
Nestle Foundation Pilot Grant (PG)
This grant supports pilot research that has a high potential to lead to a subsequent full research project grant.
Deadline 1/10/2010
Nestle Foundation Small Research Grant
The Small Research Grant (SRG) provides support of a small research study. This may represent a continuation of a TG or a PG.
Deadline 1/10/2010
Nestle Foundation Large Research Grant
This grant requires a full grant application of a complete research proposal.
Deadline 1/10/2010
Prevent Cancer Foundation Research Grants
Deadline 9/14/2009
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research Rapid Response Grants Round 2
This call for proposals (CFP) supports time-sensitive, opportunistic studies to evaluate changes in policies or environments with the potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American and Pacific Islander children (ages 3 to 18) who live in low-income communities or communities with limited access to affordable healthy foods and/or safe opportunities for physical activity.
LOI Deadline 7/17/2009
Proposal Deadline 8/14/2009
The Conservation, Food, and Health Foundation Grants
This grant is intended to fund wide-ranging programs to address health and conservation problems in the developing world.
Deadline 1/1/2010
The Gerber Foundation Research Grants
This primary focus of this grant is health and nutritional issues affecting infants and young children. Research projects aimed at finding solutions to children's health and nutritional problems are sought.
Deadline 12/1/2009
The Pew Charitable Trusts Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences
This program provides funding to young investigators of outstanding promise in science relevant to the advancement of human health.
Deadline 11/2/2009
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Grants
This grant funds programs and projects that support children, families, and communities as they strengthen and create conditions that propel children to achieve success as individuals and as contributors to the larger community and society.
This program is limited to MI, MS, and NM.
Deadline: Rolling
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