MSU AgBioResearch leaders have selected three projects to fund through the newly created Growing Healthy Together Initiative.
The projects align with the initiative’s goal of bringing together MSU scientists and partners from across campus and beyond to solve complex health challenges through transdisciplinary research. The selected projects are:
- Integrating Hospital Food Waste Valorization with Urban Agriculture to Advance Community Food Systems and Environmental Health in Detroit
- The Urban Health Pipeline: Growing Detroit’s Future Leaders in Food and Medical Careers
- Natural and Low-Cost Milk Extracts for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia
Each project will receive $100,000 in funding over the next two years.
AgBioResearch Associate Director Kang Xia, Ph.D., who led the request for proposals which was announced in February, said supporting this type of interdisciplinary, multi-institutional research is at the core of the AgBioResearch mission to advance agriculture, community resilience, environmental sustainability, food systems and health and nutrition in Michigan and worldwide.