The Foundation is proud to fund exceptional clinical nutrition research projects.
ASPEN is proud and honored to contribute to the careers of researchers studying nutrition therapy, metabolic support, and related clinical nutrition topics. View all Foundation grant recipients and accomplishments stemming from their Foundation-funded research.
The 2026 Research Grant applications are now closed.
2026 Grants
The Foundation will offer grants in the following amounts:
$25,000
Annual Award
May be renewable for one year.
Annual Award
May be renewable for one year.
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These grants are targeted to support early-stage career investigators with a PhD, MD or PharmD that have more advanced academic training, including senior postdoctoral fellows and those with academic faculty appointments at the Instructor or Assistant Professor level. Although funds for a second year are not guaranteed, the investigator may apply for a second year of funding.
$20,000
Pat Anthony Disease-Related Malnutrition Research Grant
May be renewable for one year.
Pat Anthony Disease-Related Malnutrition Research Grant
May be renewable for one year.
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Named after Pat Anthony, MS, RD, FASPEN, for her dedication to nutrition therapy and reducing the burden of malnutrition in chronic disease, this grant will be used to support projects focused on disease-related malnutrition.
$10,000
Annual Award
Not Renewable
Annual Award
Not Renewable
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The smaller grants may be most useful to support data collection and analysis for small projects including those that are part of a Masters, PharmD, or PhD program, or to support the generation of preliminary data for a new line of investigation.
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Thanking Our Supporters
The Foundation is grateful to all supporters of the annual grants program and would like to thank the supporters that make grant funding possible:
Individual Foundation Donors who fund the C. Richard Fleming* Grant, Daniel H. Teitelbaum* Grant.
Estate of Mark J. & Patricia Anthony, which funds the Pat Anthony Disease-Related Malnutrition Research Grant
