Maui firm wins federal cancer research grant
Functional Nutriments LLC, a Maui-based company that produces a dietary supplement for dogs, has won a $244,479 federal grant to research its formula for human cancers.
The company’s product helps dogs unlock a natural biological process in the body, known as apoptosis, which break up accumulated cells that should be eliminated for normal health, according to the product’s description.
The grant is part of a $1 billion program overseen by the Internal Revenue Service and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which offers funding to small businesses creating medical therapies.
The program’s goal is to reduce health costs, create jobs, and significantly advance cures for cancer within the next three decades.
