30 Apr 2019 --- Danone North America has awarded US$25,000 scholarships each to two graduate students from the University of California Davis and the University of Chicago, in the US, which will fund investigations into the study of probiotics and gut bacteria. The seven-year strong Danone North America Fellowship Grant was established to enable up-and-coming scientists to make significant strides in the interdisciplinary fields of biology, health sciences, nutrition and probiotics. Both selected proposals from this year’s grants intend to explore the factors that influence gut health and how the gut microbiome can be improved and sustained.