2024 Industry Laureate Profile: Professor Benjamin Boyd

Professor Benjamin Boyd

Administering Organisation: Monash University

Fellowship Project Summary 

IL240100045 – Precision nutrition through controlling the gut-particle biointerface

This project will establish a new framework for selection of components for food structuring that will enable enhanced digestion and delivery of nutrients from food. Australia can help solve the global issue of better food and nutrition by creating foods that efficiently deliver nutrients through improved gut interactions. The food industry contributed 11% or $187 billion towards Australia's GDP in 2018 and innovations can have a large impact on Australia's economy, through both food innovation and the health and social outcomes that result from improved nutrition.  The project will link the capabilities of Australia's large research facilities with this direct industry problem and will establish this framework through innovative experiments that determine the response of food structure to the environment in our gut and potentially revolutionise food design. This project will also create a network of industry scientists and academic researchers that will enable wide dissemination of newly established methods and techniques for broad adoption. The network will also promote non-confidential research findings through channels such as social media, websites, reports and podcasts.

Australian Research Council funding: $3,080,000

Industry Partners: Fonterra Australia PTY LTD, Australian Synchrotron (ANSTO) 

To find out more about Professor Boyd, please visit his profile page here.

For further information about this funding scheme, please visit the Industry Laureate Fellowships page.