Early Career Research Award Competition

Finalist(s)

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  Jasmine Dillon, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Cornell University
  Ithaca, New York, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Kenny Mendoza Herrera, PhD, MS (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center
  Dallas, Texas, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Andrew Oliver, PhD

  Postdoctoral Fellow
  University of California, Davis
  Oakland, California, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Valerie Sullivan, PhD, MHS, RD

  Assistant Scientist
  Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Fenglei Wang, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Peking University
  Beijing, Beijing, China (People's Republic)

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
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  Yujiao Zu, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Research Assistant Professor
  Texas Tech University
  LUBBOCK, Texas, United States

  Disclosure(s): No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

Organized by ASN's Early Career Nutrition Interest Group, this award competition challenges early career faculty, scientists and clinicians, in nutrition by providing a juried abstract review and special oral session in which they compete in presenting their research findings.

Finalists include:

• Jasmine Dillon, PhD, Cornell University
  Does Functional Unit Choice Change Conclusions About the Environmental Sustainability of Diets? A Nutritional Life Cycle Assessment of a Pulse-Forward Pattern
• Kenny Mendoza, PhD, MS, Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center
  Substitution Models of Non-Ultra-Processed Food Alternatives for Ultra-Processed Foods: Association With Obesity-Related Cancers in Three Prospective US Adult Cohorts
• Andrew Oliver, PhD, University of California, Davis
  Early Gut Microbes Are Important Predictors of Future Weight in Breastfed Infants
• Valerie K. Sullivan, PhD, MHS, RD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Proteomic Biomarkers of Inflammation and Their Associations With Diet, Incident Kidney Disease, and Death
• Fenglei Wang, PhD, Peking University
  Metabolomic Signatures of Aging and Their Associations with Clinical Biomarkers and Mortality
• Yujiao Zu, PhD, Texas Tech University
  Prebiotic Chitosan Nanoparticles Enhance Tart Cherry Anthocyanin Delivery and Attenuate Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice