Awards

The American Society for Nutrition Foundation (ASNF) awards program honors scientists, clinicians, and scholars for significant achievements in nutrition research and practice.

The 2025 Awards will be presented during Nutrition 2025, 31 May – 3 June 2025, in Orlando, FL.

Lifetime Career Achievement Awards
For individuals who have made significant and sustained contributions over the course of their careers

Investigator and Educator Awards
For investigators 10+ years past their terminal degree

Early Career Investigator Awards
For investigators < 10 years past their terminal degree

ASN Journal Research Publishing Awards
For investigators at all career stages

Fellowship, Scholarships and Funding Opportunities
For students and early career investigators

Other Awards
For scientists/nutrition professionals at all career stages

Fellows
Distinguished Fellows of AACN (DFASN) and Fellows of AACN (FASN)

Log in to the AACN Foundation Portal to submit your nomination(s).

Unless otherwise indicated, each nomination must include:

• Letter of support outlining the basis for the nomination and significance of the candidate’s work
• Brief curriculum vitae for the nominee, including a list of nominee’s publications in refereed journals
• A reprint (or series of reprints) reporting the research for which the candidate is nominated can be appended but is not required.

• Confidential award selection juries are appointed each year. Juries rank the candidates based on the award criteria. 
• An individual who has received 1 AACN award is not eligible to receive another award unless it is for accomplishments not previously recognized. 
• An award is usually given to 1 person, but a jury may recommend that the award be given to 2 or more individuals who collaborated in recent research. Similarly, a jury can determine that there are no deserving candidates in a given year. 
• The deadline for receipt of nominations is December 9, 2024. 

• Conrad A Elvehjem Award for Public Service in Nutrition   
• David Kritchevsky Career Achievement Award 
• George Bray Outstanding Scientific Achievements Award in Obesity Research 

• Jean-Pierre Habicht Lifetime Achievements in International Nutrition Award
• Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Lifetime Achievement Award
• Roland L Weinsier Award for Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition Education   

• AACN Industry Recognition Award   
• AACN Foundation Mentorship Award 
• E. V. McCollum Award 
• Excellence in Nutrition Education Award 
• General Mills Bell Institute of Health and Nutrition Innovation Award 
• Haleon Consumer Healthcare Nutritional Science Award 

• Mary Swartz Rose Investigator Award 
• McCormick Science Institute Research Award 
• Nevin Scrimshaw Mid-Career Award in Global Nutrition 
• Osborne and Mendel Award 
• Robert H Herman Memorial Award 

• Bio-Serv Award in Experimental Animal Nutrition 
• ELR Stokstad Award 
• Mary Swartz Rose Early Career Investigator Award 
• Mead Johnson Award 
• National Dairy Council Endowed Dairy Science Award
• Norman Kretchmer Memorial Award in Nutrition and Development 

• Outstanding Early Career I Professional Award (0-5 years of receiving terminal degree)
• Outstanding Early Career II Professional Award (6-10 years of receiving terminal degree)
• Peter J Reeds Early Career Investigator Award 
• Samuel J Fomon Early Career Physician Award 
• Vernon Young International Award for Amino Acid Research 

• A. Catharine Ross Award in Experimental Nutrition   
• Malden Nesheim Nutrition Landscape Award 

• Milton L. Sunde Award  
• Teresa A. Davis Award in Growth and Protein Nutrition

• ASNF Undergraduate Diversity Research Fellowship   
• Clinical Nutrition Internship Program 
• Early Career Nutrition Seed Funding Program Pilot Grant Supported by The National Pork Board 

• Gerber Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship 
• Haleon Predoctoral Fellowship  
• National Dairy Council Early Career Investigator Research Award

• AACN Volunteer of the Year Award  
• Korean Nutrition Society (KNS) Award  
• Nutrition Society of Taiwan (NST) Award 
• Special Awards & Competitions