Gerber Foundation Research Grants

The Gerber Foundation offers research grants to improve the nutrition, care and development of infants and young children from the first year before birth to three years of age. The Foundation prioritizes projects that provide fresh approaches to solving common, everyday problems or emerging issues within this focus area. Projects should focus on issues faced by care providers that, when implemented, will improve health, nutrition and/or developmental outcomes. The board particularly seeks practical solutions that can be easily and rapidly implemented on a broad scale with a predictable timeframe to clinical application. The Foundation is looking for projects that will result in 'new' information, treatments or tools that will result in a change in practice, including new diagnostic tools, treatment regimens, symptom relief, preventative measures, and risk assessment tools. The program offers two award levels: Major Research Awards for experienced principal investigators (up to $350,000) and Novice Research Awards for researchers in training or within one year post-training (up to $30,000).