Canadian Nutrition Society (CNS) conference in Montreal
We were in Montreal last week for the annual CNS conference – and I congratulate my three graduate students who did an outstanding job representing our lab and their research! Lulu was invited to the highly competitive graduate student oral competition (only 8 abstracts were selected out of ~250 submissions) and she did an absolutely […]
What a phenomenal way to end the term!
What a phenomenal way to end our FNH 455 course (Applied International Nutrition) in UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems this year: with the celebration of our inaugural Compete for Change challenge with the incredible Food for Famine Society! Our class of 43 students competed in groups to win their selected NGOs a total […]
Congratulations, Stella!
Thrilled to share the news that Stella just won a highly competitive Four Year Doctoral Fellowship from UBC! The Four Year Doctoral Fellowship (4YF) program will ensure UBC’s best PhD, DMA, and MDPhD students are provided with financial support of at least $18,200 per year plus tuition for up to four years of their doctoral […]
Brock publishes his PhD research in AJCN!
Huge congratulations to Dr. Brock Williams (Karakochuk lab alumni), who just published his PhD research in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. He spearheaded a double blind cross-over RCT assessing the effectiveness of folic acid supplementation in Canadian children with #sicklecelldisease. Here’s what was found: – Red blood cell folate levels were significantly lower […]
New publication alert!
Congratulations, Lulu, on the acceptance of your recent paper to the British Journal of Nutrition! In this exploratory research, Lulu examined ferritin concentrations in cord blood obtained from BC Children’s Hospital Biobank. She found that female term infants had higher cord ferritin compared with males, suggesting sex-specific differences in iron transfer, acquisition and utilization. She […]
Happy holidays!
Celebrating the end to a successful term! Happy 2025 everyone!
Congratulations, Stella!
Stella was awarded a BC Egg Marketing Board Scholarship for her PhD research in Cambodia. Congratulations, Stella!
Cassi heads back to Cambodia with support of a MSFSS Award!
Cassi is off to Cambodia again next week, funded by a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (MSFSS) Award, to continue the formative research on the distribution of multiple micronutrient supplements (MMS) for pregnant women at government health centers across Cambodia. She will be working on a Trial of Improved Practices (TIPS) study that aims to […]
New publication on hemoglobin measurement!
JUST RELEASED: Our new publication on hemoglobin measurement led by the TEAM Working Group for Anemia – raising caution on the use of single-drop capillary blood for anemia assessment. Summary: Accurate and precise measurement of hemoglobin concentration is critical for reliable estimations of anemia prevalence at the population level. When systematic and/or random error […]
The Karakochuk lab is growing!
Visit the ‘People’ tab on our website for full bios on our newest lab members! From left to right: Colleen Farrell, Kristy Sejane, Crystal Karakochuk, Lulu Pei, Cassi Sauer, Stella Mapemba