The New Jersey Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health (IFNH) is the epicenter for interdisciplinary research in the area of food, nutrition and health at Rutgers. The mission of the IFNH is to make New Jersey the “Healthy State” and a model for the nation. Given the high rate of childhood obesity in New Jersey, one of the major programmatic goals of the IFNH is to prevent childhood obesity and in doing so offset chronic obesity-related diseases in adulthood, e.g., diabetes, heart disease and cancer. The IFNH recognizes the key role nutritional metabolomics in general, and lipidomics in particular, may play in identifying at “risk children” and developing pre-emptive strategies to change the trajectory of the obesity epidemic. To this end, the IFNH wishes to support creative interdisciplinary research that leverages lipidomics through the
IFNH ’s core facility. Research funds are being made available from the Institute’s Endowed Research Fund to enable pilot-data to be generated for upcoming grants from major funding agencies.
Please read the instructions before completing this application. Full applications include the cover page below, a two-page description of the proposed work (see below), a one page budget rationale, and a two page CV of the PI.
Application is due on or before 4:00 PM , Monday, April, 30, 2012 . Please submit the applications in PDF format to: director@ifnh.rutgers.edu
. For more information or consultation regarding this award, please feel free to contact Dr. Anita
Brinker ( brinker@aesop.rutgers.edu
).
The grant review committee will consist of the co-chairs of the Frontiers in Lipidomics symposium, the Director of the
IFNH, the Office of Grants Facilitation, and content experts as necessary to ensure a fair and informed review of the submitted proposals.
Award notification can be expected by May 18 th with funds being available June 1 st , 2012. The period of the award is for
12 months after which the PI is expected to provide a 2 page progress report outlining successes and insights pursuant to the goals and objectives of the awarded proposal.
Using not more than two (2) pages (Arial 10 point or equivalent), give a full but concise description of your lipidomics project, covering as many of the following topics as are relevant:
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Background and rationale
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Specific aims and objectives
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Interdisciplinary aspects of the work
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Plans for future funding

FY 2012-2013
This is a fixed award in the amount of $20,000 plus $10,000 in user time in the IFNH mass spectroscopy laboratory
Project Title (Eight or fewer words):
PI: Last Name _______________________________ First Name ___________________________________________
Department ______________________________________________________________________________________
College, Faculty or Center ___________________________________________________________________________
Postal Address ___________________________________________________________________________________
Campus Phone _____________________________ E-mail________________________________________________
Co-PI: Last Name _______________________________ First Name ________________________________________
Department _______________________________________________________________________________________
College, Faculty or Center ___________________________________________________________________________
Postal Address __________________________________________________________________________________
Campus Phone _____________________________ E-mail_________________________________________________
Will this project involve human subjects? No_____ Yes_____ ________________
Protocol Number
If yes, the project cannot be initiated without prior approve from the Institutional Review Board for the Protection of
Human Subjects in Research ( http://orsp.rutgers.edu/Humans/default.php
).
Will this project involve live vertebrate animals? No_____ Yes_____ ________________
Protocol Number
If yes, the project cannot be initiated without prior approval from the Animal Care and Facilities Committee
( http://orsp.rutgers.edu/animals/default.php
).
Will this project involve human embryonic stem cells? No_____ Yes_____
If yes, complete the application found at http://cord.rutgers.edu/stemcellcourse/GuidelinesforhESCResearch.php
CERTIFICATION
I am a full-time member of the Rutgers University Faculty. I agree to use the results and data generated from this seed award in support of grant application to an external funding agency that will be submitted through the IFNH.
Signature Date