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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.


2024 Grant Recipients  |  2023 Grant Recipients


2024 ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation Grant Recipients
Mirielle Lauren Pauline, BSc

Mirielle Lauren Pauline, PhD, BSc

$25,000 Baxter Grant for Parenteral Nutrition Research
Project Title: The Role of Probiotics Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium in Neonatal Short Bowel Syndrome to Promote Adaptation and Improve Metabolic Function: Studied in Piglets.
Year 1: 2023

Introduction
; Grant progress; Grant completion

Year 2: 2024
Grant progress

Mitchell Ramsey, MD 
Mitchell L. Ramsey, MD
 
$25,000 Nestlé Nutrition Institute, Maurice Shils Enteral Nutrition Grant
Project Title: Enteral Hyperoxaluria Among Adults with Pancreatic Disorders: A Novel Biomarker to Assess for Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency.
Introduction; Grant progress
Caitlin Vonderohe, DVM, PhD

Caitlin E. Vonderohe, DVM, PhD
 
$25,000 Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition Research Grant
Project Title:  Efficacy of Citrulline Supplementation to Prevent Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Neonatal Preterm Pigs.
Introduction
; Grant progress
Richard Jacobson, MD

Richard Jacobson, MD 
 
$25,000 Abbott Nutrition Research Grant
Project Title: Targeting Surgically-induced Dysbiosis in Colorectal Cancer Peritoneal Metastases.
Introduction; Grant progress
Sarah L. Andersen, Adv APD, PhD
Sarah L. Andersen, Adv APD, PhD 
 
$20,000 C. Richard Fleming Grant & Daniel H. Teitelbaum Grant
Project Title: Prebiotic Fibre Supplementation During Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation, A Pilot Randomised Control Trial.  
Introduction; Grant progress

2023 ASPEN Rhoads Research Foundation Grant Recipients
Mirielle Lauren Pauline, BSc

Mirielle Lauren Pauline, PhD, BSc

$25,000 Baxter Grant for Parenteral Nutrition Research
Project Title: The Role of Probiotics Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium in Neonatal Short Bowel Syndrome to Promote Adaptation and Improve Metabolic Function: Studied in Piglets.
IntroductionGrant progress; Grant completion
Erin A. Posey, PhD

Erin A. Posey, PhD

$25,000 B. Braun and the Aesculap Academy Norman Yoshimura Grant
Project Title: Regulation of muscle protein synthesis by β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate (HMB) in a preterm piglet model.
IntroductionGrant progress
Jacob T. Mey, PhD, RD
Jacob T. Mey, PhD, RD

$25,000 Nestlé Nutrition Institute, Maurice Shils Enteral Nutrition Grant
Project Title: Breath Ammonia as a Malnutrition Screening Tool.
IntroductionGrant progress; Grant completion
Yimin Chen, PhD, RDN

Yimin Chen, PhD, RDN

$25,000 Reckitt/Mead Johnson Nutrition Research Grant
Project Title: Effect of early-life feeding types on neurodevelopment mediated by the gut-brain axis.

Year 1: 2022
IntroductionGrant progressGrant completion 

Ana Paula Pagano, MSc, RD

Ana Paula Pagano, MSc, RD 

$25,000 Abbott Nutrition Research Grant
Project Title: Using Innovative Tools to Improve Nutritional Assessment in Oncology.
Year 1: 2021
IntroductionGrant progressGrant completion
Year 2: 2023
Grant progress
Gabriella A.M. ten Have_cropped
Gabriella A.M. ten Have, PhD 

$20,000 C. Richard Fleming Grant & Daniel H. Teitelbaum Grant
Project Title: Targeted nutritional approach to restore metabolic deregulations during recovery from sepsis as assessed by comprehensive metabolic phenotyping.
Year 1: 2022
IntroductionGrant progressGrant completion
Year 2: 2023
Grant progress

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