Cassi wins a CIHR CGS-M scholarship!
Huge congratulations to Cassi Sauer, MSc Human Nutrition student in the Karakochuk lab, for winning a CIHR Canada Graduate Scholarship – Masters Award. This award provides $17,500 of salary support to successful students on the basis of their academic excellence, research potential and personal characteristics. For her MSc thesis research, Cassi is spearheading a cluster-randomized […]
Brock wins prestigious new posdoc fellowship award!
I’m thrilled to announce that Dr. Brock Williams (recent graduate of the Karakochuk lab) was awarded a prestigious new postdoctoral fellowship salary award from IMPaCT (Increasing capacity for maternal and paediatric clinical trials). This is a training platform funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research to train students and early career researchers on how […]
Clara presents her work at MURC 2024!
Congrats Clara, on an excellent poster presentation at the UBC Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) on March 16th! Clara’s work was focused on a directed studies course that she undertook in the Karakochuk lab titled: The efficacy of melatonin supplementation on improving fertility outcomes in women. Fantastic work, Clara!
Kelsey wins the 2024 CNS PhD Dissertation Award!
I’m thrilled for Dr. Kelsey Cochrane (recent graduate of the Karakochuk lab) to be selected as the 2024 recipient of the Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) PhD Dissertation Award for Outstanding Research Contributing the the Degree of PhD! Dr. Cochrane’s PhD research involved a clinical trial of folic acid vs 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF) supplementation during pregnancy. This […]