Balchem Corporation, a global company specializing in choline chloride and precision release nutrient technologies, has created a new grant-based research program called the Real Science Initiative. The program will offer funding to university and related research institutes to support new research projects in animal nutrition, performance and health.
Potential areas of research may include:
- Developing new applications of existing precision release nutrient technologies
- Developing new technologies for increasing the efficacy of nutrient utilization
- Product applications that enhance newborn, growing or mature animal immune responsiveness and productivity through improvements in enteric health
- increasing the understanding of choline metabolism, including interactions between choline and other nutrients involved in one-carbon metabolism and the application of this understanding.
Grant pre-proposals must be submitted by email by 5 p.m. Aug. 1. PD
—From Balchem Corporation news release
