Call for Abstracts

The Biocodex Microbiota Foundation, an organization founded by Biocodex, is dedicated to talented scientific projects that explore the implication of microbiota in human health, has announced its 2023 open call for applications for its $50,000 annual US Research Grant. The application can be downloaded here.

This will be the 7th consecutive year the Biocodex Microbiota Foundation has awarded the $50,000 US grant, which is juried by a panel of medical and scientific experts in the field and will be awarded to a US-based, early-career investigator studying gut microbiota in human health and disease, and can be applied to a new or existing study.

We hope you will share this open call information. The application and details are available online at the link above. Deadline to enter is 10/1/2023.

Previous Biocodex Microbiota Foundation $50,000 grant recipients include:

• 2022 – Dr. Harikesh Dubey, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, for his research focused on to study the effect of gut microbiomes (collected from human infants) on brain structure and functions in various mouse models of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• 2021 – Dr. Julie Brown, MD, PhD, for her research into the neonatal gut microbiome and its role in lung immune development and antiviral immunity
• 2020 – Dr. Jessica Queen, MD, PhD, for her work on Fusobacterium strains from colon cancer biopsies
• 2019 — Dr. Arpana Gupta, PhD., for her research on the prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome (MetS)
• 2018 — Dr. Tao Yang, PhD., for his investigation into how intestinal microbes may cause dysfunctional gut-brain connections
• 2017 – Dr. Rashim Singh, PhD, for her research on flavonoids and microbiome interactions via triple recycling and their roles in food-borne carcinogen-induced colorectal cancer