The Loncin Prize: Funding Food Science Research
IFT and the IFT Foundation have awarded the Marcel Loncin Research Prize to seven researchers since 1994. Here’s what the research funding has accomplished.
In early 1992, a Belgian scientist named Marcel Loncin, then Head of the Dept. of Food Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, expressed a desire to endow a biennial prize that would honor and provide funding for a scientist or engineer conducting basic research applied to food processing and improvement of food quality.
His friends Werner Bauer and Theodore Labuza convinced him to consider endowing the prize with the Institute of Food Technologists. The contract was approved in Octo…
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