Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102906

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160102906

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Understanding and implications of formation of lipid nanostructures in milk. This project aims to deliver new understanding of the processes of milk digestion. Milk is the most important food for human survival, providing all the essential nutrition to newborn infants and constituting a major part of the adult diet. The recent discovery that nanostructure is formed during the digestion of both cow and breast milk, but not of vegetable 'milk', has opened a large number of questions to answer in this project. Specifically, the project plans to link nanostructure formation in milk with composition during digestion, and the subsequent delivery of nutrients. The project plans to use synchrotron and microscopy techniques to address these questions. Project outcomes may improve our understanding of digestion and drive innovation in products delivering nutrients to infants.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $522,900.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Pharmaceutical Sciences | Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Unprocessed or Minimally Processed Milk | Processed Milk and Cream (incl. Powder, Evaporated and Condensed) | Human Pharmaceutical Treatments (e.g. Antibiotics) |

Other Keywords

Colloid and Surface Chemistry | Human Pharmaceutical Treatments (e.g. Antibiotics) | Pharmaceutical Sciences | Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) | Processed Milk and Cream (incl. Powder, Evaporated and Condensed) | Unprocessed or Minimally Processed Milk

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