Pump Priming Award
The British Nutrition Foundation Drummond Pump Priming Award is an annual scheme run by the British Nutrition Foundation awarding a grant of £5000 to help a university lecturer or research fellow in human nutrition to undertake the pilot work needed to generate data that can be used as the basis of a more substantial grant application.
The Award is made possible through the British Nutrition Foundation's management of the Drummond Memorial Fund, established in memory of the work and contribution of Sir Jack Drummond.
The 2024 Pump Priming Award winner: Dr Victoria Norton, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Reading
You can watch a video of Dr Norton talking about her award for her research project 'SCREEN IT: developing a quick dietary fibre screening tool for the UK population' here.
Previous winners
- 2023 Dr Noshin Daud, The Rowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Investigation of tumour cytotoxic effects of gut bacteria grown in β-glucan-supplemented medium
- 2022 Dr Aygul Dagbasi, Post-doctoral Researcher at Imperial College London, Understanding the impact of food structures on ileal metabolites and gut hormone release
- 2020 Dr Luciana Torquati, Lecturer in Nutrition in the Department of Nutrition Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter, The role of gut microbiome on endurance exercise capacity
- 2019 Dr David Clayton, Lecturer in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology at Nottingham Trent University, 'Optimising intermittent fasting: Evaluating the behavioural and metabolic effects of extended morning and evening fasting' & Dr Rachel Gibson, Lecturer in Nutrition & Dietetics at King’s College London, 'Working hours and cardiometabolic health – an emerging area of nutritional research'
