Grants/Funds Awarded
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Date |
Role |
Project |
Funder |
Grant amount |
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Grant funded research projects |
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November 2024 to 2029 |
Team member |
KNUST Nutrition and Agrifood Systems (Nkabom) project |
MasterCard Foundation |
15.2 million US dollars |
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January 2024 to November 2025 |
Principal Investigator |
Building Capacity for Robust Food Quality and Safety Data in Ethiopia and Ghana to Advance Human and Planetary Health |
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
Total grant won=1.5 million US dollars.
Amount for KNUST = 750,000 USD |
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September 2024 to 2028 |
Principal Investigator |
Metabolic Syndrome, Gut Microbiome and Breast Cancer Risk among Ghanaian women |
Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds (WKOF)/World Cancer Research Fund |
417,907.87 Euros |
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January 2024 to December 2025 |
Principal Investigator |
Soil health study to investigate the interlinkages between soil health, food composition and human health |
Seerave Foundation |
200,000 US dollars |
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July 2023 to 2025 |
Principal Investigator |
FOOD EDU Fellowship programme to investigate the determinants of quality of indigenous Ghanaian food crops |
Main PTFI through Rockefeller Foundation |
200,000 US Dollars |
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July 2022 till date |
Principal Investigator |
PTFI year 1 funding |
Rockefeller Foundation and Seerave Foundation |
150,000 US dollars |
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2019-2021 |
Principal Investigator |
Underlying causes of poor dietary intake, nutritional status and birth outcomes in pregnant adolescents and adults |
Nestle Foundation |
73,000 US dollars |
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July 2018 to 2020 |
Ghana, Principal Investigator |
Researching Obesogenic Food and Environment in South Africa and Ghana |
International Development Research Centre, Canada |
Total amount 7,615,522 South African Rand
KNUST received 2,284,656 South African Rand |
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Mar. to Sept. 2018 |
Co-investigator |
Investigating Gene Obesity Nutrition in Ghana pilot Study |
University of Reading and University of Chester, UK |
10,000 Pound Sterling |
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2013 to 2017 |
Co-investigator |
Investigating the effectiveness of malnutrition eLearning for global capacity building, funded by Department of International Development, through the Nutrition Embedding Evaluation Programme |
Department for International Development, UK through the Nutrition Embedded Evaluation Programme |
Total amount 180,000 Pound Sterling
KNUST received 28,000 Pound Sterling |
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TOTAL AMOUNT IN US DOLLARS |
18,479,992 |
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