Background and rules
Background
The Rainer Gross Prize: Recent Innovations in Nutrition and Health in Developing Societies was created by the Hildegard Grunow Foundation to honour the memory of the late Dr. Rainer Gross and memorialise his unique approach to innovation in concepts and research in critical, but novel areas of inquiry, with a view to bettering the nutrition and health of the less fortunate. With the awarding of this Prize, we recognize the merits of others who continue the generation and pursuit of innovative ideas and projects in nutrition and health in developing societies. The Prize is endowed with $ 2500 USD, and will be awarded biennially on the occasion of a large international nutrition-related meeting. The first award will be made in September 2010, during the II World Congress of Public Health Nutrition in Porto, Portugal. The award ceremony will include a lecture by the awardee on the work being recognized, and the awardee is invited to write a corresponding review-style overview regarding the background of the innovation, to be published in a prestigious nutritional journal.
Rules
Selection criteria
- Submitted work must be recent (conducted within the last 5 years) and innovative – i.e. judged as making needy communities at nutritional risk and fellow professionals aware of problems previously unrecognized, while beginning to open a pathway to their practical solution.
- Such concepts should have sufficient support regarding their feasibility and likely applicability. Moreover, they should have passed beyond the "idea" stage into proof-of-principle evidence or initial demonstration, although the derivative findings do not necessarily need to have been formally published in the scientific or technical literature when applying for the award.
- Topics may include the entire gamut of problems related to nutrition, ranging from the molecular to the epidemiological level. This does not exclude technical inventions and plant- or animal-breeding initiatives, provided they are original and novel and deemed likely to solve important nutritional problems in developing countries.
