Deadline: 9 September 2024
Applications are now open for the Global Grants for Gut Health programme for investigator-initiated research into the human gut microbiota, supported by Yakult and Nature Portfolio.
The Global Grants for Gut Health will consider proposals for one-year research projects – whether laboratory investigations or clinical studies – that advance understanding of the mechanisms by which gut microbiota have an impact on human health.
For many years now, microbiology researchers have explored the role gut bacteria play in human health. However, the human gut is home to a rich ecosystem of microbial and non-microbial components with multiple complex interactions. A better understanding of these interactions is one vital component in completing their picture of the role of the human gut microbiome in human health and breakthroughs could be an important key to making an impact on human lives.
Funding Information
- The programme will make a maximum of three awards per funding cycle, each of up to US$100,000.
- Research projects should be one year in duration.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants should be employed by a university, research institute or any other not-for-profit organisation. Applicants must hold a doctorate or medical degree (e.g., PhD, MD, PharmD) and have at least five years’ postdoctoral research experience.
- The awards are global, so applicants can be of any nationality and projects can be hosted at eligible organisations in any country apart from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Burma/Myanmar, Russia, or the Crimea, Donetsk or Luhansk regions of Ukraine, or other sanction-sensitive countries or regions as updated from time to time.
- The programme is open to applicants from all scientific disciplines.
For more information, visit Nature Awards.
