October 2022
Laura Nguoron Utume > Other Awards
A grant that promotes Academic Staff Training and Development (AST&D) for Nigerian academics in tertiary institutions. This grant funds my PhD studies in the UK. My PhD is a multidisciplinary research using animal models and techniques in Food Technology, Food/Medical Microbiology and Molecular Biology to investigate the effects of a type of processed food (RUTF) often used as a treatment intervention in malnourished children; emphasis on gut health (microbiome studies) and linear growth using a selection of Omics techniques - metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteomics.
April 2023
Laura Nguoron Utume > Other Awards
A highly competitive grant that promotes research opportunities for researchers in the UK and Israel. A knowledge exchange scheme of sorts that allows researchers from both countries spend some time (6 - 12 months maximum duration) in the other country doing experiments. With this grant, I am a Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) conducting some animal model (Sprague Dawley Albino Rats) experiments and Bone study analyses at The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Rehovot - Israel; I am hosted by Prof. Efrat Monsonego-Ornan at the Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition.
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Awards

October 2022 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Scholarship

April 2023 UKKi-Israel Grant (Universities UK International)
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
Natural Resources Institute, University of Greenwich, London/Kent

Degrees:

2015
Master
Structural, Cell and Molecular Biology
2005
Undergraduate
Biological Systems and Organisms

"Food and Nutrition Security in Africa" - Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (FaNSI) International Conference
2025
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Development of 'safe for the gut' ready-to-use-therapeutic-food (RUTF) to tackle the double burden of malnutrition

"Food and Nutrition Security in Africa" - Food and Nutrition Security Initiative (FaNSI) International Conference
2025
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Awards

October 2022 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) Scholarship

April 2023 UKKi-Israel Grant (Universities UK International)