ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS (NUTRIENT COMPETITORS)

The Foundation is interested in projects that evaluate the effects of environmental hazards on infants and young children. Applied research projects that document the impact of, or ameliorate effects of, environmental hazards on the growth and development of infants and young children are the focus of this area of interest.

Typical projects funded in this area of interest are:

Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

$156,493

 

Evaluation of nutritional outcomes in methadone exposed infants

 

 

 

Texas Tech University

$64,000

 

Evaluation of effects of environmental perchlorate on iodine levels and breast milk transmission

 

 

 

University of Minnesota

$223,288

 

Evaluation of oxidative stress from 100% oxygen therapy at birth

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning." -Native American