The company will award a scholarship equivalent to one year’s tuition (up to $25,000) to a current or incoming graduate student to enhance his or her academic path in this field. The student will also receive an all-expense-paid trip to the Danone Research Centre in Palaiseau, France to explore topics in probiotics, nutrition, and human physiology alongside leading experts.
Dr Miguel Freitas, director of health affairs at Dannon, said: “The study of probiotics is one of the most exciting and rapidly emerging areas of scientific exploration. As a company leading the way in probiotic research and education, Dannon hopes to instill the same enthusiasm we have for probiotics in the next generation of scientists. This is an exciting opportunity for a student to not only receive educational support, but also have access to some of the leading minds in the discipline.”
Dr Mary Ellen Sanders, dairy and food culture technologies consultant, and executive director of the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP), said: “The benefits of probiotics may not stop with what we know today—in fact, additional potential attributes of probiotics are still being discovered. It’s important for companies like Dannon to continue supporting the education of future experts within the field, and I am honored to sit on the judging panel for this exciting Probiotics Fellow Programme.”
Scholarship applications are now being accepted, and must be submitted by March 31 to qualify. The winning applicant will be determined by a panel including Dr Mary Ellen Sanders, Daniel Merenstein, MD, Associate Professor and Director of Research Programmes at the Department of Family Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Centre, Dr Patrick Veiga, Senior Scientist, The Danone Research Centre and Dr Miguel Freitas, Director of Health Affairs, The Dannon Company.
Source: Dannon Company
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