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Whey Protein Film Research Supported

Over the past two years, nearly $16,000 has been awarded by the University of California, National Milk Producers Federation, and the Institute of Food Technologists to five graduate students investigating whey protein films and coatings in Professor John Krochta’s UC Davis laboratory. The awards being received by these students are going toward supplies for research and travel to professional meetings.

The students and their research awards include

• Kirsten Dangaran, UC Davis Jastro-Shields Research Award: $3,000
• Lauren Franssen, UC Davis Jastro-Shields Research Award: $1,200; National Milk Producers Federation Research Scholarship: $2,000
• Fiona Hutchinson, UC Davis Jastro-Shields Research Award: $1,200
• So-Yeun Lee, UC Davis Jastro-Shields Research Award: $1,600
• Pearl Sothornvit, UC Davis Jastro-Shields Research Award: $850

The students also received more than $6,000 in travel funds over the last two years from the UC Davis Thomas A. Nickerson Memorial Fund, UC Davis Sherman Leonard Memorial Fund and the Institute of Food Technologists. These travel funds have allowed the students to present their work at the Institute of Food Technologies Annual Meeting and at other meetings.

“The food industry is eager for new information on whey protein-based films and coatings,” says John Krochta, holder of the Peter J. Shields Chair in Dairy Food Science at UC Davis. “The term whey protein on an ingredient label is less threatening sounding to consumers than, for instance, hydroxypropylmethol cellulose. We are providing the food industry with convincing data on the superior properties of whey protein films and coatings.”

Dairy Dispatch
Fall 2001

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