Cara Mayer wins the 2019 APNM Undergraduate Research Excellence Award!
Cara was a work learn student in the Karakochuk lab between 2018-2019, leading a pilot research study on the iron status of female varsity athletes. Cara was instrumental in leading this research over the past year and is now drafting a manuscript on her findings (stay tuned!). She also assisted the team with another pilot […]
Welcome Jessica Yu and Lulu Pei!
The Karakochuk lab welcomes Jessica Yu (left) and Lulu Pei (right), two UBC undergraduate students who will be spending their summer abroad with our research teams in Malaysia and Cambodia this year. Jessica and Lulu were students in Dr. Karakochuk’s Applied International Nutrition course at UBC (FNH 455) and received Go Global Self-Directed Research Awards […]
Brock Williams wins first place at CNS 2019!
Congratulations to Brock Williams, who won first place in the Infographic Award Competition at the Canadian Nutrition Society Annual Conference in Niagara Falls this month! Brock is a PhD Student in the Karakochuk lab, spearheading a randomized controlled cross-over trial on folic acid supplementation in children with sickle cell disease. As a Clinical Dietitian at […]