Louis Bonduelle Research Award Call for applications for young student researchers

1. Press Release
22 August 2011
Louis Bonduelle Research Award
Call for applications for young student researchers
You have:
- a research project on nutrition or eating habits in the broadest sense of the terms.
- an experimental, clinical, sociological, epidemiological, or agronomic research project.
You are enrolled in a university in Nutrition, Medicine, Dietetics, Pharmaceutics, Sciences,
Agri-food or in Social Sciences (Psychology, Sociology, etc.).
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation invites you to compete for
its 7th Research Award (€10,000)
To submit your project
Download the rules and regulations and the registration kit available as of 5 September 2011 at
www.fondation-louisbonduelle.org –See “Research Support” in the "Health Professionals” section.
Candidates must be 35 years of age* or under and can compete regardless of nationality.
The deadline for submission of applications is 7 November 2011.
* as of 31 December 2011
THE LOUIS BONDUELLE FOUNDATION
European public authorities have made nutrition a top health priority, particularly through various national
programmes. The Louis Bonduelle Foundation joins this movement by making vegetables and their
benefits the focus of its initiatives. By providing a new look at vegetables and their daily consumption, the
Foundation encourages us to adopt better eating habits and gives us the means to do so. Its initiative
aims to combine lifelong health, quality living, and healthy enjoyment.
The Louis Bonduelle Foundation, whose aim is to promote public interest in vegetables by working to
bring about long-term change in eating habits, upholds its commitment to supporting research on important
topics in nutrition and eating habits. The Foundation therefore strives to be an active participant in the
development of knowledge in the area of nutrition and in the dissemination of this knowledge.
In 2011, the submissions were of such superior quality that the Foundation awarded not one but two 10,000-
euro Research Awards. One of the Awards winners was Ling Chun Kong, doctoral student in
physiopathology since the end of 2008, working in the laboratory of Prof Karine Clément. The Award will
allow her to study the effects of calorie restriction on human intestinal microbiota and its repercussions on
obesity and nutritional transition for Micro-Obès, a French-Chinese project funded by the French National
Research Agency (ANR) and partnered with the European MetaHit network.
The other Research Award went to Florent Vieux, who is conducting his thesis under the supervision of Dr
Nicole Darmon (Inra JRU 1260, Université d’Aix-Marseille). A student in statistics and social sciences, he is
working on modelling the impact of various nutrition policies, particularly nutritional information and education
policies.