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Call for Proposals
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Preproposal Deadline (required): December 12, 2024 | 11:59 p.m. CST
Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation only): January 27, 2025 | 11:59 p.m. CST
Funding available: up to $50,000.00 per proposal
The Personalized Nutrition Initiative, with the support of our External Partners Program, is seeking applications for multidisciplinary research proposals that have the potential to impact personalized nutrition and support health and well-being of healthy human populations across the lifespan. The goal of the External Partners Directed Research program is to fund research with the potential to provide new applied and translatable innovation in personalized nutrition to advance health or solutions to personalized nutrition-related barriers that meet shared and critical needs in companies of all sizes.
In this call for proposals, we invite proposals from interdisciplinary teams for projects using existing data sets to enhance personalized nutrition-related understandings. The secondary analysis may involve existing data sets on campus or All of Us, UK Biobank, NHANES, other large data sets, or a combination of data sets. Examples of areas of interest are cardiometabolic outcomes (e.g., weight, heart health, blood glucose), cognition, and optimizing health biomarkers, but other areas will be considered.
Projects that will yield initial results in a relatively short timeframe (12 months) will be prioritized, with opportunities to share findings and garner input from the External Partners. A maximum of $50,000.00 may be initially requested over 12 months. To be eligible, the Principal Investigator (PI) must be an Affiliate member of the Personalized Nutrition Initiative. External collaborators can be part of the proposal, but funding is required to stay on campus (i.e., no sub-awards). If there are collaborations with researchers outside of academia or the Personalized Nutrition Initiative External Partners, please arrange a discussion before preproposal submission and include information in the submission; see instructions below.