Yakult Global grants for Gut Health

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Objective

The Global Grants for Gut Health is a competitive programme that is open to researchers from across the world for investigator initiated research into the human gut microbiota, supported by Yakult and Nature Portfolio. In 2023, the Global Grants for Gut Health invites proposals for research projects that explore the relationship between the human gut microbiome and post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (long COVID). 

Long COVID

Altered gut microbiome composition in long COVID appears to be associated with persistent symptoms in many patients with post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS). It may be particularly closely associated with one of the four major distinct subsets of long COVID symptoms recently identified as well as being implicated in others.

This call seeks research proposals intended to quantify and characterise the phenomena of altered gut microbiome in these patients and particularly those intended to identify mechanisms of action underlying this association and approaches to microbiota modulation to facilitate timely recovery and reduce the global burden of PACS.

Funding Details

Each award is up to USDS$100,000. Research projects should be one year in duration.

Eligbility Criteria

Applicants should be employed by a university, research institute or any other not-for-profit organisation. Applicants must hold a doctorate or medical degree (e.g., PhD, MD, PharmD) and have at least five years' postdoctoral research experience.

Note:

• The awards are global, so applicants can be of any nationality and projects can be hosted at eligible organisations in any country apart from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Burma/Myanmar, Russia, or the Crimea, Donetsk or Luhansk regions of Ukraine, or other sanction-sensitive countries or regions as updated from time to time.

• The programme is open to applicants from all scientific disciplines.

Submission

1. Interested applicants are to please submit their applications online via the Nature Portfolio portal on the Submittable platform here by 14th September 2023 (Thursday), 11:59PM EST.
   

2. Kindly create an account before submitting your application online. If you already have an account, please login to your account to submit your application.
   

3. Once you have completed your application, you will be asked to enter the contact details of the Signing Official at the Lead Institution, including their email address. When you submit your application, an email will be automatically generated, asking the Signing Official to countersign your application. They will also be asked to confirm that their office has been provided with a copy of the draft funding agreement and given in-principle approval. Please prepare your application in a standalone document first before copying the elements into this form and to retain this document and share it with your institution's signing officer.

4. Upon successful submission, a confirmation message will be displayed on the screen and a confirmation email will be sent to the Principal Investigator. Please note that applications that are unable to Submit is because all the required information has not been provide

Contact Person

Email: gutgrants@springernature.com

 Additional Information

Please refer to the grant call on Gut Health in the website here or the following attachments for more information.

GGGH_Funding agreement.pdf

GGGH_Terms and conditions for applicants.pdf