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IFM Announces 2025 Functional Medicine for All Scholarship Winners

by Shari Barbanel | November 19, 2025

The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has announced the recipients of its 2025 Functional Medicine for All Scholarship. This scholarship program aims to expand access to functional medicine training benefiting practitioners and patients worldwide. It is specifically intended for clinicians who are embarking on their certification journey and are dedicated to working with medically underserved communities. Expanding ...

Ardmore Institute of Health Supports IFM in Helping Clinicians Address Chronic Disease

by Shari Barbanel | July 16, 2025

The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) has announced that Ardmore Institute of Health (AIH) has awarded it a $30,000 grant to accelerate the adoption of whole health and lifestyle medicine at academic institutions, helping up to 250 future clinicians implement equitable and preferred methods for preventing, treating and reversing chronic disease. For 11 years, AIH ...

Dr. Ben Zimmerman Awarded Grant to Propel Aging-related Research

by Shari Barbanel | November 20, 2023

Ben Zimmerman, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher investigator at the Helfgott Research Institute at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM), has received a grant from the Medical Research Foundation (MRF) to advance the understanding of aging-related health. This grant investigates natural medicine interventions and mechanisms for delaying or preventing age-related cognitive decline and dementia. Dr. ...

IFM and FMCA Receive VoLo Foundation Grant

by Shari Barbanel | October 24, 2023

The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA) have received a grant from VoLo Foundation. This grant invests in scholarships and educational opportunities for practitioners and health coaches and helps advance health equity through expanded access to a root cause, functional medicine approach to health care. As a trusted and experienced ...

Murdock Grant Provides Technological Boost to NUNM’s Online Naturopathic Program

by Shari Barbanel | October 18, 2021

National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) has been named them recipient of a substantial grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust of Vancouver, WA. The grant will provide technology improvements for the university’s industry-leading first-year online Doctor of Naturopathic (ND) program. “It is a pleasure to share the good news that Trustees have approved a grant ...

NIH Awards $7 Million to UA College of Medicine

by Shari Barbanel | August 15, 2016

About 25 million people in the United States—seven million of them children—suffer from asthma. A five-year, $7 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant awarded recently to Monica Kraft, MD, an internationally renowned physician-scientist who specializes in translational asthma research at the University of Arizona (UA) College of Medicine – Tucson and the UA Health ...

UA Health Sciences and Banner Health Receive Funding for PMI Cohort Program

by Shari Barbanel | July 11, 2016

The University of Arizona (UA) Health Sciences and Banner Health have been awarded a $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to participate in the Precision Medicine Initiative Cohort Program, which aims to enroll one million or more U.S. participants to improve prevention and treatment of disease based on individual differences in ...

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