Hildegard-Grunow-Foundation for Nutrition Research (HGF)

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The Hildegard-Grunow-Foundation for Nutrition Research (HGF)

The HGF is a nonprofit foundation, located in Munich, Germany.

(1) Its purpose is to promote and sponsor research in the fields of nutrition and food science, as applied to public health and medicine, including molecular, toxicological and physiological aspects, as well as ecology and conservation of natural resources. One focus of the Foundation is on the interaction between nutrition, health and ecology, whereas another is on training of young scientists and health professionals and local capacity building of emerging institutions, both focused preferentially in the developing world.

Moreover, HGF supports research projects on the interaction among dietary components and their impact on homoeostatically regulated mechanisms to reveal the interrelationships among nutrition, health, and environmental ecology.

(2) Towards these ends, HGF supports specifically:

a) Field research projects in nutrition with evident potential for the goals mentioned above, which are not yet sufficiently advanced to attract funding from more formal donors and granting agencies.

b) Publication in scientific journals and dissemination at national and international congress meetings of new findings in the aforementioned fields of research.

c) Scholarship for the training of young professionals and local capacity building in developing countries.