Congratulations to Tebby – UBC 3MT winner!
Huge congratulations to Tebby who won first place in UBC Vancouver’s 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition yesterday! The 3MT is an academic competition that assists current graduate students with fostering effective presentation and communication skills. Participants have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience. Founded […]
Brock wins a NASPGHAN Foundation CPNP Nutrition Research Grant!
This award, provided by the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (NASPGHAN) Foundation Council for Pediatric Nutrition Professionals (CPNP), will fund a first-of-its-kind study to determine whether inexpensive, commercially available food compounds (obtainable from food retailers) are as effective as costly, industrially available glycerinated food extracts for use in sublingual immunotherapy, a […]
Congratulations Tebby!
Tebby won first place in the 2021 Global Health Conference at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute for her outstanding oral presentation titled: “Anemia prevalence and nutrition status among San women and children in rural Botswana.” Congratulations, Tebby!
Kaitlyn and Jordie TIE for First Place!
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Samson and Jordie Fischer (Karakochuk lab) who TIED for FIRST PLACE in the poster competition at the 2021 BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute’s Healthy Starts Trainee Research Day (Feb 3, 2021). Kaitlyn presented her MSc research titled: “The inclusion of folic acid in weekly iron-folic acid supplements confers no additional benefit on […]
Kelsey to present her research at BCCHR Healthy Starts Research Day 2021
Kelsey will be presenting some exploratory findings from her folate supplementation trial during pregnancy at the BCCHR Healthy Starts Research Day on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021. Tune in to hear more about her exciting results!
Lulu’s research published in Diagnostics
Congratulations to Lulu on the acceptance of her manuscript this week in Diagnostics: Can automated hematology analyzers predict the presence of a genetic hemoglobinopathy? An analysis of hematological biomarkers in Cambodian women. See the full publication here. Figure 1: Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for the individual CBC biomarkers in the prediction of the homozygous […]
Kelsey Cochrane, PhD Candidate!
Huge congratulations to Kelsey Cochrane who has successfully advanced to PhD Candidacy! Her PhD comprehensive exam research proposal was titled: “Vitamin D in polycystic ovary syndrome: establishing best practices for supplementation”. Congratulations, Kelsey!
Jordie wins ‘Best Poster’ at the SEC Trainee Research Day!
Congratulations, Jordie, on receiving the ‘Best Poster’ Presentation Award at the Master’s levels the at the 2020 Social Exposome Cluster Trainee Research Day at the BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute! Her poster describes the prevalence, severity and types of anemia among non-pregnant women in Cambodia, presenting some preliminary baseline data from our randomized control trial […]
Our Biomek i5 has arrived!
We installed our Biomek i5 in the NUTRI-HEME Laboratory this week! This multi-channel liquid handler will allow for more efficient and economical analyses in-house. ELISA assays and DNA extraction protocols will be automated via this new benchtop workstation, which puts every aspect of liquid handling, including pipetting, dilution, dispensing, and integration, into a single automated […]
Kaitlyn successfully defends her MSc thesis!
Well done, Kaitlyn, on your official completion of the MSc HUNU program! For her MSc thesis, Kaitlyn undertook a randomized controlled trial in Malaysian women that investigated three different doses of folic acid and their impact on increasing RBC folate concentrations to a level associated with a reduced risk of neural tube defects. Her main […]