Project Grant 20236701744995
- This $299,999 project grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA #10.310). The grant will fund a study to investigate the effects of thermal, mechanical, and thermo-mechanical processing on the non-digestible fermentable contents and undigested proteins in whole oats, pinto beans, and lima beans, and the subsequent impacts on modulating the human gut...
- This $1,046,444 Project Grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) program. The award is funding research and educational activities to: Evaluate the interactions between microbial composition, macromolecular polyphenols, and metabolic signatures related to obesity and chronic disease prevention. This includes both anaerobic fermentation studies and an animal model. Evaluate...
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (CFDA 10.310) to the University of Missouri System. This 4-year grant, awarded on Aug 1, 2025, aims to develop dietary fiber supplementation strategies to improve sow health and productivity in the U.S. pork industry. The project will focus on creating functional fiber indexes tailored to sow gestation, farrowing, and lactation...
- This $163,511 Project Grant award, issued by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) under the Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.847), supports research on the effects of the dietary fiber fructooligosaccharides (FOS) on hypothalamic inflammation and obesity. The research, to be conducted by the University of Illinois in Chicago from September 2025 through May 2030, aims to investigate how FOS supplementation in a...
- This $2,893,480 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (CFDA 93.855 - Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research) supports research to investigate how dietary fat consumption impacts intestinal inflammation and metabolism. The key objectives are to: Understand how excessive dietary fat perturbs butyrate metabolism in colonocytes (intestinal epithelial cells) and promotes inflammation. This will involve stable isotope tracing experiments and using...
- The Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded a $120,000 Project Grant to the University of Illinois under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI, CFDA 10.310) program. The 2-year grant will support doctoral training and career development for the Principal Investigator through a research project focused on multi-omics analysis of the human gastrointestinal microbiome to characterize diet-microbiota-health connections. Specifically, the project aims...
- This $940,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) CFDA 10.310 program supports research and education to address the global obesity epidemic. The project integrates research on how dietary polyphenols from plant foods influence adipose tissue growth and metabolism to prevent obesity, along with developing an innovative educational curriculum to train...
- The University of Arizona, doing business as the Arizona Board of Regents, was awarded a $180,000 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (CFDA 10.310). The project aims to investigate the impact of beta-glucan and oligofructose fiber supplementation in a high-fat diet on metabolic homeostasis, gut microbiota composition, and the role of the Allobaculum bacteria. Specifically, the research will 1) determine the impact of different...
- This federal Project Grant award of $1,046,346 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program aims to address food insecurity and unhealthy dietary behaviors among college students, particularly low-income and racial/ethnic minority populations. Through a partnership with five universities, including three minority-serving institutions (MSIs), the funded project will conduct research using...
- This $630,410 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program supports research at Tufts University School of Medicine investigating the effects of the dietary saturated fat stearic acid on the gut microbiome and bile acid metabolism. The 3-year project, running from September 2025 to August 2028, will use an ingestible sampling device to collect region-specific...
This federal Project Grant award of $263,819.39 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The grant will support research to examine how dietary fiber can improve small intestinal nutrient sensing mechanisms that regulate food intake via a gut-brain axis, which is dependent on changes in the small intestinal microbiome. Specific objectives include identifying small intestinal bacteria that could act as potential probiotics and examining how fiber-induced changes in the small intestinal microbiome alter bile acid homeostasis. This research aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which dietary fiber improves metabolic homeostasis and energy balance, with the potential to inform the development of targeted nutritional interventions for obesity. The award was made to the Regents of the University of Minnesota and has a performance period from June 16, 2025 to April 15, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $263.8k | 8/29/25 |