We congratulate Assistant
Professor Robin Bernstein on receiving a prestigious, $2 million grant from the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s
Achieving Healthy Growth program aims to comprehend children’s growth with the
goal of having children across the world achieving healthy growth.
This grant will allow Dr.
Bernstein and her team to study how hormones in children’s bodies are affected
by nutrition and disease. Her data and conclusions will contribute to our
understanding of children’s growth.
Dr. Bernstein received one of the
seven grants awarded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study growth
in children. The Foundation has designated children’s growth as one of the most
important issues that in world health.
